Review Article

Water Circulation, Sediment Transport, and Pollutant Dynamics in Southern Iberia Waters: A Review on Numerical Modelling Studies

Table 10

Flushing times (days) for 137Cs and 239,240Pu in the surface and deep layers, for the dissolved phase and suspended matter. The regression coefficient of the numerical fitting to the double exponential decay function is also given.

137Cs 239,240Pu
SurfaceBottomSurfaceBottom

Water

(days) 292 121 3720 814
0.966 0.992 0.989 0.999

SPM

(days)248 123 4422 893
0.974 0.992 0.997 0.999