Effect of declining lake base cation concentration on freshwater critical load calculations

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 3255-3260

  Watmough, Shaun A ^a   Aherne, Julian ^a   Dillon, Peter J ^a  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDITY; AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DEPOSITION; POSITIVE IONS; PUBLIC POLICY; SOILS;

CATION CONCENTRATIONS; FRESHWATERS; SOIL ACIDIFICATIONS; STEADY-STATE WATER CHEMISTRY (SSWC);

LAKES;

CALCIUM; CATION; FRESH WATER; SULFATE; WATER;

CATION; CRITICAL LOAD; FRESHWATER; LAKE WATER;

ACIDITY; AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CANADA; LAKE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL ACIDIFICATION; SOIL CHEMISTRY; STEADY STATE; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER ANALYSIS;

CATIONS; FRESH WATER; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFERENCE VALUES; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 18344374560     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es048607t     Document Type: Article

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