Water quality fluxes for eastern UK rivers entering the North Sea: A summary of information from the Land Ocean Interaction Study (LOIS)

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 314-316, Issue , 2003, Pages 821-882

  Neal, Colin ^a   Davies, Helen ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acid available; Aire; Alkalinity; Aluminum; Ammonium; Antimony; Calder; Dissolved; Don; Flux; Great Ouse; Humber; Major elements; Minor elements; Nidd; North Sea; Nutrients; Ouse; Particulate; River; Swale; Thames; Trace elements; Trent; Tweed; Ure; Wear; Wharfe; Yorkshire Ouse

Indexed keywords

RIVERS; TRACE ELEMENTS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

CHEMICAL FLUX TRANSFERS;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

CALCIUM; CHROMIUM; LEAD; NITRATE;

LAND-SEA INTERACTION; NUTRIENT; RIVER DISCHARGE; TRACE ELEMENT; WATER QUALITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HYDROLOGY; INDUSTRIAL AREA; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MEASUREMENT; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER; SEA POLLUTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED KINGDOM; URBAN AREA; WATER QUALITY;

NORTH SEA; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0141454005     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(03)00086-X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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