Role of Storm Resuspension in Contaminant Transport in Marine Environments.

摘要

My goal within the Harbor Processes program is to develop an integrated resuspension-sorption model for the marine environment and apply it to investigate the roles of resuspension, transport, and sorption in the redistribution and loss of sediment-associated contaminants during storm events. The objectives of this project for FY99 have been to 1) investigate computationally efficient ways of representing sorption to and from suspended sediment that can be implemented at a time step comparable to the time step in time-dependent suspended sediment transport calculations; and 2) to characterize time scales associated with sediment transport events at sites on the continental shelf of varying wave climate.