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Models of Dissolved Component Transport at the Hillslope Scale

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Overland Flow Dynamics and Solute Transport

Part of the book series: Theory and Applications of Transport in Porous Media ((TATP,volume 26))

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Rain water on the landscape of a drainage basin can be contaminated by substances that have accumulated on the surface of soil or in its top layer, thus making water flow the major transport and redistribution factor of chemicals (solutes, chemical components, contaminants) at the solid and air interphase. In the rain periods, the contamination hazard is the greatest for surface water streams and bodies. In agricultural regions, fertilizers and pesticides are washed out from fields. In urbanized areas, surface runoff supplies surface waters with dissolved oil products, combustion products of transport fuel, heavy metals, as well as bacteria-polluted waters from emergency sewage spills. A specific class of problems is associated with forecasting radionuclide washout from zones of radioactive pollution, i.e., the areas subject to fallouts of gas-aerosol emissions from facilities of nuclear industry or power engineering, primarily, during emergencies, as well as areas of emergency spills of liquid radioactive wastes.

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  1. Institute of Environmental Geology, The Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg, Russia

    Vyacheslav G. Rumynin

  2. Institute of Earth Sciences, Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia

    Vyacheslav G. Rumynin

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Rumynin, V.G. (2015). Models of Dissolved Component Transport at the Hillslope Scale. In: Overland Flow Dynamics and Solute Transport. Theory and Applications of Transport in Porous Media, vol 26. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21801-4_3

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