Effective monitoring of small river basins.
As the transport of many pollutants occurs during high floods monitoring programs must focus on these intermittent events. In small rivers the pollutants start their travel as short pulses often associated with fine particles, but disperse on their way downstreams. Therefore the chemical data of a flood event are only representative of a small part of the basin adjacent to the monitoring station. This is usually not taken into account by evaluating water quality data.
Symader
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Hydrological Department, University of Trier, FB VI-Hydrologie, D-54286 Trier, Germany. symader@rzmail.uni-trier.de
Bierl
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Gasparini
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Krein
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A
D004190:Disasters; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D019015:Geologic Sediments / Q000737:chemistry; D006801:Humans; D045483:Rivers; D014867:Water / Q000737:chemistry; D014873:Water Pollutants / Q000378:metabolism
D014873:Water Pollutants; D014867:Water