To what extent can portable fluorescence spectroscopy be used in the real-time assessment of microbial water quality?

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 532, Issue , 2015, Pages 14-19

  Baker, Andy ^a   Cumberland, Susan A ^b   Bradley, Chris ^c   Buckley, Chris ^d   Bridgeman, John ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Fluorimetry; Groundwater; Microbial water quality; Organic matter fluorescence; River

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CATCHMENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; FLUOROMETERS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; RIVERS; RUNOFF; SEWAGE; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATER RESOURCES;

FAECAL CONTAMINATION; FLUORESCENCE INTENSITIES; FLUORIMETRY; INTRINSIC FLUORESCENCE; MICROBIAL WATER QUALITY; ORGANIC MATTER FLUORESCENCES; REAL-TIME ASSESSMENT; WATER QUALITY PARAMETERS;

RIVER POLLUTION;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; GROUNDWATER; MICROBIOLOGY; ORGANIC MATTER; REAL TIME; RIVER WATER; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; CATCHMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; FLUOROMETER; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; NONHUMAN; PH; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TURBIDITY; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER TEMPERATURE; ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MICROBIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SOUTH AFRICA; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; WATER POLLUTANT;

ENGLAND; KWAZULU-NATAL; SOUTH AFRICA; UNITED KINGDOM; WEST MIDLANDS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

WATER POLLUTANT;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; SOUTH AFRICA; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 84930666607     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.05.114     Document Type: Article

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