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A linked hydrodynamic and water quality model for the Salton Sea

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The Salton Sea Centennial Symposium

Part of the book series: Developments in Hydrobiology ((DIHY,volume 201))

Abstract

A linked hydrodynamic and water quality model was developed and applied to the Salton Sea. The hydrodynamic component is based on the one-dimensional numerical model, DLM. The water quality model is based on a new conceptual model for nutrient cycling in the Sea, and simulates temperature, total suspended sediment concentration, nutrient concentrations, including PO −34 , NO −13 and NH +14 , DO concentration and chlorophyll a concentration as functions of depth and time. Existing water temperature data from 1997 were used to verify that the model could accurately represent the onset and breakup of thermal stratification. 1999 is the only year with a near-complete dataset for water quality variables for the Salton Sea. The linked hydrodynamic and water quality model was run for 1999, and by adjustment of rate coefficients and other water quality parameters, a good match with the data was obtained. In this article, the model is fully described and the model results for reductions in external phosphorus load on chlorophyll a distribution are presented.

Guest editor: S. H. Hurlbert The Salton Sea Centennial Symposium. Proceedings of a Symposium Celebrating a Century of Symbiosis Among Agriculture, Wildlife, and People, 1905–2005, held in San Diego, California, USA, March 2005

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  1. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA, 95616, USA

    Eu Gene Chung & S. Geoffrey Schladow

  2. Department of Physics, University of Girona, Girona, 17071, Spain

    Joaquim Perez-Losada

  3. U.S. Geological Survey, Middleton, WI, 53562, USA

    Dale M. Robertson

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Chung, E.G., Schladow, S.G., Perez-Losada, J., Robertson, D.M. (2008). A linked hydrodynamic and water quality model for the Salton Sea. In: Hurlbert, S.H. (eds) The Salton Sea Centennial Symposium. Developments in Hydrobiology, vol 201. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8806-3_5

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