European land-based pollutant loads to the North Sea: An analysis of the Paris Commission data and review of monitoring strategies

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 194-195, Issue , 1997, Pages 39-58

  Jarvie, Helen P ^a   Neal, Colin ^a   Tappin, Alan D ^b  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

fluxes; LOIS; North Sea; OSPARCOM; Paris Commission; pollutant loads; river monitoring; water quality

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CADMIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL; LEAD; LINDANE; MERCURY; METAL; NITRATE; PESTICIDE; PHOSPHATE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; RIVER WATER; ZINC;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED KINGDOM; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; LAND-BASED LOADS; MARINE POLLUTION; METHODOLOGY; MONITORING STRATEGY; PARCOM; POLLUTION MONITORING; RIVER DISCHARGE; RIVER POLLUTION; RIVER WATER QUALITY; WATER QUALITY;

NORTH SEA;

EID: 0030619140     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(96)05352-1     Document Type: Article

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