Spatial variations of wet deposition rates in an extended region of complex topography deduced from measurements of 210Pb soil inventories

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 111-125

  Branford, D ^a   Mourne, R W ^a   Fowler, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEAD 210; NITROGEN; ORGANIC MATTER; RADON 222; RAIN; SULFUR;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADIONUCLIDE; TOPOGRAPHY; WET DEPOSITION;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; SOIL; UNITED KINGDOM; WIND;

EID: 0031705744     PISSN: 0265931X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0265-931X(98)00008-3     Document Type: Article

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