Unified Hydro-Environmental Modelling for Bathing Water Compliance: Second Edition - Softcover

Adjetey Boye, Brian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 620986550X ISBN 13: 9786209865503

Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 2026

Synopsis

This book tackles the challenge of accurately predicting water quality in natural systems where artificial boundaries are irrelevant. Traditional hydro-environmental models often use inconsistent parameters across catchments, rivers, estuaries, and coastal waters, leading to errors in assessing diffuse source pollution and bathing water compliance. The study implements a Cloud-to-Coast (C2C) modelling approach, linking catchment, river, and estuarine-coastal models using common input parameters. An empirical formulation captures bacterial decay influenced by salinity, temperature, turbidity, and solar irradiance. The Ribble Estuary and Fylde Coast models were refined with improved 1-D/2-D domain linkages and reduced computational overlap. Numerical codes were optimized for GPU-based parallel computing, tested on the Ribble and Thames Estuaries with over 80 million bathymetric points. This approach enhances predictive accuracy, allows real-time forecasting, and supports compliance with the EU Bathing Water Directive, providing a more realistic, integrated, and computationally efficient framework for environmental impact assessment.

Edition details

• Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 620986550X
• ISBN 13: 9786209865503
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304