Seasonal and diurnal methane emissions from a landfill and their regulation by methane oxidation

Waste Management and Research

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 33-54

  Börjesson, Gunnar ^a   Svensson, Bo H ^b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cover material; Greenhouse effect; Landfill; Methane emissions; Methane oxidation; Soil; Sweden

Indexed keywords

METHANE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; LANDFILL; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL POLLUTION; SUMMER; SWEDEN; TEMPERATURE;

DIURNAL VARIATION; LANDFILL; METHANE EMISSION; METHANE OXIDATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL TEMPERATURE;

SWEDEN;

GASEOUS EFFLUENTS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; LAND FILL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OXIDATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION;

METHANE OXIDIZING MICROORGANISMS; SWEDEN;

METHANE;

EID: 0030615772     PISSN: 0734242X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/wmre.1996.0063     Document Type: Article

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