Modeling suspended sediment transport and assessing the impacts of climate change in a karstic Mediterranean watershed

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 538, Issue , 2015, Pages 288-297

  Nerantzaki, S D ^a   Giannakis, G V ^a   Efstathiou, D ^a   Nikolaidis, N P ^a   Sibetheros, I A ^b   Karatzas, G P ^a   Zacharias, I ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b TEI Athens Department of Civil Infrastructure Engineering Agiou Spyridonos ^*  (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Climate change; Karstic springs; Mediterranean watershed; Suspended sediment modeling; SWAT model

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; EROSION; FLOODS; RAIN; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTS; SPRINGS (WATER); SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS; WATER POLLUTION; WATERSHEDS;

CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS; HIGH INTENSITY RAINFALL; KARSTIC SPRINGS; MEDITERRANEAN WATERSHEDS; SEDIMENT CONCENTRATION; SOIL AND WATER ASSESSMENT TOOL; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT CONCENTRATIONS; SWAT MODEL;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; KARST; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SPRING (HYDROLOGY); SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; WATERSHED;

ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FLOODING; HYDROLOGY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SIMULATION; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL EROSION; SPRING; WATER ANALYSIS; WATERSHED MANAGEMENT; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PROCEDURES; SEDIMENT; SOUTHERN EUROPE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER SUPPLY;

WATER POLLUTANT;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HYDROLOGY; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTANTS; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84939811714     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.07.092     Document Type: Article

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