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Advanced monitoring of South Portugal water bodies towards WFD

dc.contributor.authorMartins, Flávio
dc.date.accessioned2009-02-13T17:09:16Z
dc.date.available2009-02-13T17:09:16Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.description.abstractThe challenge on implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) fosters the development of new monitoring methods and approaches. It is now commonly accepted that the use of classical monitoring campaigns in discrete point is not sufficient to fully assess and describe a water body. Due to this the WFD promote the use of modelling techniques in surface waters to assist all phases of the process, from characterisation and establishment of reference conditions to identification of pressures and assessment of impact. The work presented in this communication is based on these principles. A classical monitoring of the water status of the main transitional water bodies of Algarve (south of Portugal) is combined with advanced in situ water profiling and hydrodynamic, water quality and ecological modelling of the systems to build a complete description of its state. This approach extends spatially and temporally the resolution of the classical point sampling. The methodology was applied during a 12 month program in Ria Formosa coastal lagoon, the Guadiana estuary and the Arade estuary. The synoptic profiling uses an YSI 6600 EDS multi-parameter system attached to a boat and a GPS receiver to produce monthly synoptic maps of the systems. This data extends the discrete point sampling with laboratory analysis performed monthly in several points of each water body. The point sampling is used to calibrate the profiling system and to include variables, such as nutrients, not measured by the sensors. A total of 1427 samplings were performed for physical and chemical parameters, chlorophyll and microbiologic contamination in the water column. This data is used to drive the hydrodynamic, transport and ecological modules of the MOHID water modelling system (www.mohid.com), enabling an integrate description of the water column.
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dc.identifier.citationWFD Conference. - Lille, 2007. - 1 ppt_PT
dc.identifier.otherAUT: FMA00440;
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/53
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.publisherLillept_PT
dc.relation.urihttp://www.bib.ualg.pt/artigos/DocentesEST/MARAdv.pdfpt_PT
dc.rights.uriopenAccessen
dc.subjectMonitorização da qualidade da águapt_PT
dc.subject532pt_PT
dc.subject628pt_PT
dc.titleAdvanced monitoring of South Portugal water bodies towards WFDpt_PT
dc.typejournal article
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person.familyNameMartins
person.givenNameFlávio
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person.identifier.orcid0000-0002-9863-6255
person.identifier.ridU-2673-2018
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