Description
Book SynopsisPresents mathematical models for estimating and predicting sediment fluxes. These models provide sufficient detail and data to enable scientists in the field to reproduce the computations and use the models for understanding their own data. This title offers computations directly applicable to developing modern water quality models.
Trade Review"Addresses the problem of mathematically modeling the processes in sediments that determine the extent to which materials that settle to the sediment are recycled to the water column." (SciTech Book News Vol. 25, No. 2 June 2001)
"...the definitive text on the subject and deserves a place in any respectable environmental library." (SETAC Globe, Vol. 2, No. 5, September/October 2001)
"...an important addition to the literature...a comprehensive treatise of sediment flux models." (Soil Science, Vol. 168, No. 1, January 2003)
Table of ContentsPreface.
Acknowledgments.
PRELIMINARIES.
Properties of Sediments.
Model Formulation.
NUTRIENTS.
Ammonia.
Nitrate.
Steady State Model.
Phosphorus.
Silica.
OXYGEN.
Oxygen Equivalents.
Sulfide.
Methane.
Sulfide and Methane.
TIME VARIABLE MODEL IMPLEMENTATION.
Diagenesis.
Mass Transport and Numerical Methods.
MODEL CALIBRATION AND APPLICATIONS.
Chesapeake Bay.
MERL, Long Island Sound, and Lake Champlain.
Steady State and Time Variable Behavior.
METALS.
Calcium and Alkalinity.
Manganese I: Sediment Flux.
Manganese II: Overlying Water-Sediment Interaction.
Iron Flux Model.
Cadmium and Iron.
Appendix A: Data Tables.
Appendix B: Computer Program.
Nomenclature.
Bibliography.
Index.
