Modelling the effect of atmospheric nitrogen deposition on marine phytoplankton in the Singapore Strait

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 859-867

  Sundarambal, P ^a   Tkalich, P ^a   Balasubramanian, R ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Atmospheric depositions; Eutrophication; Nutrients fluxes; Singapore Strait; Water quality model

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; DISSOLUTION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; EUTROPHICATION; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; NITROGEN; OCEANOGRAPHY; PHYTOPLANKTON; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

3D MODELLING; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITIONS; ATMOSPHERIC NITROGEN DEPOSITION; COASTAL EUTROPHICATION; FOOD WEBS; HIGH CONCENTRATION; MARINE PHYTOPLANKTON; MODEL CALIBRATION; MODEL SIMULATION; NITRATE NITROGEN; NUTRIENT FLUXES; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; SINGAPORE; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIABILITY; WATER QUALITY MODELS;

NUTRIENTS;

NITROGEN;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; EUTROPHICATION; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WATER QUALITY;

AIR POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CALIBRATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NUTRIENT; PHYTOPLANKTON; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEA; SINGAPORE; WATER QUALITY;

STRAIT OF SINGAPORE;

EID: 84988255628     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2010.357     Document Type: Article

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