Concept information
Preferred term
water column
Definition
- A water column is a conceptual column of water from the surface of a sea, river or lake to the bottom sediment. The concept of water column is useful since many aquatic phenomena are explained by the incomplete vertical mixing of chemical, physical or biological parameters. Water columns are used chiefly for environmental studies evaluating the stratification or mixing of the thermal or chemically stratified layers in a lake, stream or ocean: for example, by wind-induced currents. Some of the common parameters analyzed in the water column are pH, turbidity, temperature, hydrostatic pressure, salinity, total dissolved solids, various pesticides, pathogens and a wide variety of chemicals and biota. (Adapted from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_column)
Broader concept
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URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/QX8-K5BV7N1P-W
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