Modelling biocide and herbicide concentrations in catchments  of the Rhine basin

Moser, Andreas; Wemyss, Devon; Scheidegger, Ruth; Fenicia, Fabrizio; Honti, Mark; Stamm, Christian

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-4229-2018

Articles | Volume 22, issue 8

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-4229-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-4229-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 22, issue 8

Research article

|

10 Aug 2018

Research article |

| 10 Aug 2018

Modelling biocide and herbicide concentrations in catchments of the Rhine basin

Andreas Moser, Devon Wemyss, Ruth Scheidegger, Fabrizio Fenicia, Mark Honti, and Christian Stamm

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #1, 01 Feb 2018
- AC1: 'Response to Review 1', Christian Stamm, 29 Mar 2018
RC2: 'Review summary', Anonymous Referee #2, 05 Mar 2018
- AC2: 'Response to Review 1-3', Christian Stamm, 29 Mar 2018
RC3: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #3, 06 Mar 2018
- AC2: 'Response to Review 1-3', Christian Stamm, 29 Mar 2018

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by editor and referees) (04 Apr 2018) by Nunzio Romano

AR by Christian Stamm on behalf of the Authors (15 May 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by editor and referees) (02 Jun 2018) by Nunzio Romano

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (04 Jun 2018) by Nunzio Romano

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (05 Jul 2018)

ED: Publish as is (14 Jul 2018) by Nunzio Romano

AR by Christian Stamm on behalf of the Authors (19 Jul 2018) Manuscript

Short summary

Many chemicals such as pesticides, pharmaceuticals or household chemicals impair water quality in many areas worldwide. Measuring pollution everywhere is too costly. Models can be used instead to predict where high pollution levels are expected. We tested a model that can be used across large river basins. We find that for the selected chemicals predictions are generally within a factor of 2 to 4 from observed concentrations. Often, knowledge about the chemical use limits the predictions.