Acidification in three Lake District Tarns: Historical long term trends and modelled future behaviour under changing sulphate and nitrate deposition

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 197-204

  Whitehead, P G ^a   Barlow, J ^b   Haworth, E Y ^c   Adamson, J K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

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