Brake Pad Partnership
Technical Reference Library Keywords
To facilitate identification of items of interest in the collection, the following keywords are used in the catalog:
Certain of these keywords have specific meanings in the context of the Brake Pad Partnership's research program, as described below:
- Bay—any bay or estuary, including (but not limited to) San Francisco Bay
- Deposition—accumulation of materials from the air onto surfaces
- Chemistry—any chemical analysis of wear debris or pollutants in water or sediments
- Characterization—any work describing the chemical or physical properties of brake pad wear debris
- Copper-standards—relevant to water quality criteria, objectives, or effluent limits for copper
- Model-air—mathematical model of pollutant transport through air or deposition onto surfaces from air
- Model-water—mathematical model of pollutant transport or fate in surface waters
- Analog—study presenting information on other pollutants or pollutant sources that may have relevance to the understanding of the fate, transport, or environmental importance of copper in vehicle brake wear debris
- USGS—United States Geological Survey
- Castro Valley—a watershed draining to San Francisco Bay that is the proposed study area for the storm water runoff and watershed transport portion of the Brake Pad Partnership's fate and transport studies
- Lower South San Francisco Bay—the portion of San Francisco Bay South of the Dumbarton Bridge where many initial studies of copper and vehicle brake pads were conducted
- Wear debris—material released from vehicle brake pads during use
