Water Quality of Drainage Canals and Assessment of Nutrient Loads Using QUAL2Kw

Environmental Processes

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 369-385

  Gikas, Georgios D ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Agricultural runoff; Drainage; Nutrients; QUAL2Kw; Trophic state; Water quality

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF; DRAINAGE; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; IRRIGATION; NUTRIENTS; RIVER POLLUTION; WASTEWATER DISPOSAL; WATER QUALITY;

CALIBRATION AND VERIFICATION; IRRIGATION RETURN FLOWS; MONITORING PROGRAMS; NON-POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; QUAL2KW; SEASONAL VARIATION; TROPHIC STATE; WATER QUALITY IN RIVER;

IRRIGATION CANALS;

AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CALIBRATION; CANAL; DRAINAGE NETWORK; NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; SEASONAL VARIATION; TROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; WATER QUALITY;

AEGEAN SEA; EASTERN MACEDONIA AND THRACE; GREECE; KAVALA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MESTA RIVER; THRACIAN SEA;

EID: 84937208957     PISSN: 21987491     EISSN: 21987505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40710-014-0027-5     Document Type: Article

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