First results are presented of a large-scale GIS-based nutrient transport modelling for the 1985-1999 period in the Estonian part of the transboundary drainage basin of Lake Peipsi (Estonian)/Chudskoe (Russian), one of the largest lakes in Europe, shared by Russia and Estonia. Although the lake is relatively undisturbed by human pollution, it is vulnerable for eutrophication by increased river loads, as shown in the past, when the north-eastern part of the former Soviet Union suffered from intensive agriculture. The collapse of the Soviet Union caused a dramatic decline in fertilizer application rates and widespread abandonment of agricultural land. Although concentration measurements and modelling results indicate a general decrease in nutrient loads, modelling is complicated by the transfer of nutrients from diffuse emissions, which is strongly governed by retention and assumed periodic release from storages within the river basin, like the root zone, tile drains, ditches, channels, bed sediments, floodplains and lakes. Modelling diffuse emission contribution to river loads can be improved by better knowledge about the spatial and temporal distribution of this retention and release within the drainage basin.
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February 01 2004
Modelling nutrient fluxes from diffuse and point emissions to river loads: the Estonian part of the transboundary Lake Peipsi/Chudskoe drainage basin (Russia/Estonia/Latvia)
D. Mourad;
1Department of Physical Geography, Utrecht Centre for Environment and Landscape Dynamics (UCEL), Faculty of Geographical Sciences, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80115, 3508 TC Utrecht, the Netherlands
E-mail: D.Mourad@geog.uu.nl
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M. van der Perk
M. van der Perk
2Department of Physical Geography, Utrecht Centre for Environment and Landscape Dynamics (UCEL), Faculty of Geographical Sciences, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80115, 3508 TC Utrecht, the Netherlands
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Water Sci Technol (2004) 49 (3): 21–28.
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D. Mourad, M. van der Perk; Modelling nutrient fluxes from diffuse and point emissions to river loads: the Estonian part of the transboundary Lake Peipsi/Chudskoe drainage basin (Russia/Estonia/Latvia). Water Sci Technol 1 February 2004; 49 (3): 21–28. doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wst.2004.0154
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