Overview
- Provides detailed background on environmental chemistry, diffusion, and transport
- Examines transport and fate in single media as well as inter-media transfer of chemicals
- Covers transport and fate in rivers, lakes, the oceans, and groundwater
- Demonstrates key applications of transport and fate analyses within the ecosphere
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Atmosphere-water Exchange
- Chemicals in the Ocean
- Diffusive Transport
- Dispersive Transport
- Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology
- Jets of Chemicals
- Lake and Resevoir Transport and Fate of Chemicals
- Plumes of Chemicals
- River Fate and Transport
- Sediment-water Interfaces
- Subsurface Chemicals Fate and Transport
- Toxic Organic Chemicals
- Transport and Fate Chemicals in the Environment
- Turbulent Transport
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Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transport and Fate of Chemicals in the Environment
Book Subtitle: Selected Entries from the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology
Editors: John S. Gulliver
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5731-2
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-5730-5
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-8613-9
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-5731-2
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 378
Topics: Physical Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry, Geochemistry, Waste Management/Waste Technology, Biogeosciences, Ecotoxicology