Soil silver content of agricultural areas subjected to cloud seeding with silver iodide

Fresenius Environmental Bulletin

Volumn 11, Issue 9 B, 2002, Pages 697-702

  Tsiouris, S E ^a   Aravanopoulos, F A ^b   Papadoyannis, I N ^b   Sofoniou, M K ^b   Polyzopoulos, N ^a   Christodoulou, M ^c   Samanidou, V F ^b   Zachariadis, G A ^b   Constantinidou, H I A ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c ELGA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cloud seeding; Silver iodide; Soil silver

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CLOUD SEEDING; SILVER; SOIL POLLUTION;

GREECE;

EID: 0036758548     PISSN: 10184619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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