Temperature effects on the acidity of remote alpine lakes

Nature

Volumn 387, Issue 6628, 1997, Pages 64-67

  Sommaruga Wögrath, Sabine ^a   Koinig, Karin A ^a   Schmidt, Roland ^b   Sommaruga, Ruben ^a   Tessadri, Richard ^a   Psenner, Roland ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID BASE BALANCE; AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; LAKE; PH MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WEATHER;

ACIDITY; ALPINE LAKE; LAKE CHEMISTRY; LAKE WATER QUALITY; WATER TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0030616439     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/387064a0     Document Type: Article

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