Tidal Flat Estuaries Simulation and Analysis of the Ems Estuary [Paperback]

In view of the increasing problems of waste disposal in the Netherlands, plans were made to pipeline the waste to the Ems-Dollard estuary. To evaluate the practicability a project was started with the aim to implement a simulation model of an estuary ecosystem. This model was based on the knowledge of the hydrology, geochemistry and biology of the Ems estuary. For this approach data of the abiotic and biotic environment were collected in studies of the Ems estuary and are presented in this report. With its comprehensive information of biological processes as food webs, biomass production and nutrient supply, as well as of sedimentological and flux parameters, this book can be considered as a general model of an estuary ecosystem.In view of the increasing problems of waste disposal in the Netherlands, plans were made to pipeline the waste to the Ems-Dollard estuary. To evaluate the practicability a project was started with the aim to implement a simulation model of an estuary ecosystem. This model was based on the knowledge of the hydrology, geochemistry and biology of the Ems estuary. For this approach data of the abiotic and biotic environment were collected in studies of the Ems estuary and are presented in this report. With its comprehensive information of biological processes as food webs, biomass production and nutrient supply, as well as of sedimentological and flux parameters, this book can be considered as a general model of an estuary ecosystem.I: Description of the Ecosystem.- 1 Modelling the Ecosystem of the Ems Estuary.- 1.1 Introduction.- 1.2 Earlier Investigations of the Ems Estuary.- 1.3 Other Models of the Ems Estuary.- 1.4 Structure of the Ecosystem Model.- 1.5 A Glimpse of the Modelling Practice.- 1.6 Simulation Hard-and Software.- 2 The Abiotic Environment.- 2.1 History.- 2.2 Topography and Morphology.- 2.3 Sediment Composition.- 2.4 Climate.- 2.5 Fresh Water Supply.- 2.6 Tide.- 2.7 Water Movement and Mixing.- 2.8 Sediment Transport and Accumulatils$