Assessment of the Fate and Effects of Toxic Agents on Water Resources

by Gonenc, I. Ethem; Koutitonsky, Vladimir G.; Rashleigh, Brenda; Ambrose, Robert B., Jr.

• ISBN13: 9781402055270
• ISBN10: 1402055277
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-15
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

Like all limited and vulnerable resources, water has become one of the potential targets of terrorists. Coastal lagoons are especially vulnerable as they are densely populated centers of commerce and/or tourism. This volume addresses the basic scientific concepts that must be integrated by decisionmakers to minimize damages and optimize recovery operations in the aftermath of such an attack. Scientists from many disciplines including water resource management, hydrodynamics, aquatic ecology and social science combine their expertise in an effort to assess and model emergency scenarios for coastal lagoon systems. This case study uses existing numerical models such as-EFCD, WASP and AQUATOX are used to demonstrate how to optimize rapid response and decision-making

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 3
Decision making in rapid assessment and diagnosis of CBRN effects on coastal lagoons	p. 11
Physical processes in lagoons	p. 55
Hydrodynamic equations	p. 83
Monitoring physical processes	p. 109
Time series analysis of lagoon variables	p. 127
Discretization techniques	p. 143
Numerical models as decision support took in coastal areas	p. 171
The ecosystem approach applied to the management of the coastal socio-ecological systems	p. 199
Developing the D-P-S-I-R framework of indicators for management of human impact on marine ecosystems : Baltic Sea example	p. 222
Phytoplankton ecological processes for ecosystem modeling : some basic concepts	p. 245
Modeling possible impacts of terrorist attacks in coastal lagoon ecosystems with Stella	p. 259
Trophic network models and prediction of toxic substances accumulation in food webs	p. 279
Assessment of lake ecosystem response to toxic events with the AQUATOX model	p. 291
Chemical weapons dumped in the Baltic Sea	p. 299
Monitoring after attack	p. 321
Case study : dieldrin attack in Dalyan Lagoon	p. 329
The WASP7 surface water body model	p. 387
Properties of dieldrin	p. 395
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