Estuarine Water Quality Management: Monitoring, Modelling and Research

Front Matter....Pages I-XV
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Estuarine Water Quality Management: Planning, Organizing, Monitoring and Modelling....Pages 3-10
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Progress in Estuarine Water Quality Modelling....Pages 13-24
Strategy of Current and Transport Modelling in Different Estuaries....Pages 25-34
Mathematical Modelling of Hydrodynamics in the Elbe Estuary....Pages 35-40
Modeling Wind-Induced Mixing and Transport in Estuaries and Lakes....Pages 41-48
Development of a Water Quality Model for the Patuxent Estuary....Pages 49-54
Numerical Modeling of Suspended Sediment Dynamics in the Weser Estuary....Pages 55-58
Analysis of the Distribution of Suspended Particulate Matter, Bacteria, Chlorophyll a and PO 4 in the Upper St. Lawrence Estuary, Using a Two-Dimensional Box Model....Pages 59-65
Calculation of Estuarine Contaminant Transport with Strong Particulate-Dissolved Partitioning....Pages 67-72
The Specification of Shear Stresses in Estuary Models....Pages 73-76
Front Matter....Pages 77-77
The BILEX Concept — Research Supporting Public Water Quality Surveillance in Estuaries....Pages 79-88
Waste Disposal and the Estuarine Environment....Pages 89-94
Development of a Water Quality and Bio-Accumulation Model for the Scheldt Estuary....Pages 95-104
Water Quality Management for the Hooghly Estuary....Pages 105-110
Strategy for Estuarine Water Quality Management in Developing Countries: The Example of Nigeria (West Africa)....Pages 111-114
Water Quality Including the Ecosystem....Pages 115-120
The Sensitivity-Survey — A Useful Decision-Aid for the Protection of the Mud-Flats in the German North Sea Coastal Region....Pages 121-124
Front Matter....Pages 125-125
A Study on the Transport of Dissolved and Particulate Matter through the Hamburg Harbour....Pages 127-134
Tidal Asymmetry and Fine Suspended Sediment Transport in the Eastern Scheldt Tidal Basin (The Netherlands)....Pages 135-140
Fluxes of Water, Solids and Metals through the Mersey Estuary (UK) as Measured by a Continuous Data Recording Station (MIDAS)....Pages 141-146
Front Matter....Pages 125-125
Suspended Matter and Heavy Metal Transport in the Lower Elbe River under Different Flow Conditions....Pages 147-152
Seasonal Variations of Mineralogical Composition and Heavy Metal Contamination of Suspended Matter in the River Elbe Estuary....Pages 153-158
Suspended Matter in the Outer Elbe Estuary and in the Wadden Sea: Distribution and Transport....Pages 159-164
Investigations on Suspended Matter Transport Processes in Estuaries and Coastal Waters....Pages 165-171
Statistical Properties of Turbulence in Estuaries....Pages 173-179
Recent Developments in Large-Scale Tracing by Fluorescent Tracers....Pages 181-188
Transport of Rhodamine-B Following a Slug Release into the River Elbe above the Port of Hamburg....Pages 189-196
Feasibility of Tracer Studies of Large Scale Cohesive-Sediment Transport....Pages 197-202
The Influence of a Salt Wedge and Tidal Flow Dynamics on Contaminant Pathways in the Fraser River Estuary, British Columbia....Pages 203-208
Front Matter....Pages 209-209
The Hydrographic Measuring System H Y D R A....Pages 211-216
Current Measurement in Estuaries by Electro-Magnetic Methods and DECCA-Drifters....Pages 217-220
Acoustic Detection of Suspended Matter in Coastal Waters....Pages 221-224
Laser Fluorometer for the Detection of Rhodamine-B in Estuarine Waters....Pages 225-228
Quasi-Synoptic Uni-Sensor In-Situ 3D Current Measurements in Estuaries....Pages 229-234
Chemical Tracers — A New and Desirable Technique?....Pages 235-238
Measurement of Suspended Loads in Streams by Means of Hydrocyclones....Pages 239-242
Front Matter....Pages 243-243
Fluid-Mud Movement and Bed Formation Process with Density Current in Estuaries....Pages 245-252
Bell- Jar Experiments and Suspension Measurements for the Quantification of Oxygen Consumption and Nitrogen Conversion in Sediments of the Elbe Estuary....Pages 253-258
Phosphate Sorption Equilibrium at Sediment-Water Interfaces — Consequences for the Rehabilitation of Waters....Pages 259-264
Denitrification: Elimination of Ammonia and Nitrate Nitrogen from Tidal Sediments....Pages 265-270
Front Matter....Pages 243-243
The Bed Shear Stress of an Annular Sea-Bed Flume....Pages 271-275
Particulate Contaminant Transport in Rivers — Modelling of Near Bed Exchange Processes —....Pages 277-282
Front Matter....Pages 283-283
Lower Weser Monitoring and Modelling....Pages 285-294
Monitoring of Radioactivity in the Elbe Estuary....Pages 295-300
Regulations and Monitoring for the Discharge of Cooling Water and Radioactive Substances from a Nuclear Power Plant into the Weser Estuary....Pages 301-307
Front Matter....Pages 309-309
Correlation of the Seasonal and Annual Variation of Phytoplankton Biomass in Dutch Coastal Waters of the North Sea with Rhine River Discharge....Pages 311-320
Nutrient Variability in a Shallow Coastal Lagoon (Ria Formosa, Portugal)....Pages 321-326
Seasonal Changes of Dissolved and Particulate Material in the Turbidity Zone of the River Elbe....Pages 327-334
Annual Flux Budget of Dissolved Inorganic Nutrients through a Well-Mixed Estuary....Pages 335-340
Studies on the Distribution of Oxygen and Nutrients in the Weser Estuary....Pages 341-344
Management of Nitrate Loading in the Chao Phraya Estuary....Pages 345-350
Front Matter....Pages 351-351
Biological Processes in the Estuarine Environment....Pages 353-361
A Massive Fish Kill Caused by an Anoxia on Brittany Coast (France) — Causes and Mechanisms —....Pages 363-368
Phytoplankton and Eutrophication Modelling in the Vilaine Bay....Pages 369-376
Monitoring the Bioavailability of Heavy Metals in Relation to the Sediment Pollution in the Weser Estuary (FRG)....Pages 377-383
Seasonal and Spatial Patterns of the Diatom Actinocyclus Normanii in the Weser Estuary (NW-Germany) in Relation to Environmental Factors....Pages 385-388
The Importance of Stratification for the Development of Phytoplankton Blooms — A Simulation Study....Pages 389-394
Biomass and Production of Phytoplankton in the Elbe Estuary....Pages 395-398
Microphytobenthos in the Elbe Estuary: Biomass, Species Composition and Primary Production Measurements with Oxygen Microelectrodes....Pages 399-402
Front Matter....Pages 403-403
Adsorption and Release Processes in Estuaries....Pages 405-412
Front Matter....Pages 403-403
The Behaviour of Dissolved Cd, Cu and Zn in the Scheldt Estuary....Pages 413-420
Use of Nonvolatile Chlorinated Hydrocarbons as Anthropogenic Tracers for Estimating the Contribution of the Rivers Weser and Elbe to the Pollution of the German Bight....Pages 421-428
Multielement Determination of Trace Elements in Estuarine Waters by TXRF and INAA....Pages 429-436
High-Sensitive Determination of Element Traces by Means of X-Ray Fluorescence Analysis for Automatic Routine Measurements....Pages 437-441
Gradients of Trace Heavy Metal Concentrations in the Elbe Estuary....Pages 443-448
Chlorophenolics in the Fraser River and Estuary....Pages 449-454
An Intercomparison of Particulate Trace Metals from Four Large Estuaries....Pages 455-460
Dissolved, Particulate and Sedimentary Mercury in the Cochin Estuary Southwest Coast of India....Pages 461-465
Back Matter....Pages 467-479