A comment on the use of flushing time, residence time, and age as transport time scales

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1545-1553

  Monsen, Nancy E ^a   Cloern, James E ^a   Lucas, Lisa V ^a   Monismith, Stephen G ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b Stanford University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; FLUSHING; RESIDENCE TIME; WATER MASS;

EID: 0036733526     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2002.47.5.1545     Document Type: Article

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