Global coastal segmentation and its river catchment contributors: A new look at land-ocean linkage

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Meybeck, Michel ^a   Dürr, Hans H ^a,b   Vörösmarty, Charles J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; COASTAL ZONES; DATABASE SYSTEMS; NITROGEN; RIVERS; RUNOFF;

CATCHMENT; LAND-SEA INTERACTION; RIVER DISCHARGE; RUNOFF;

EID: 33244455606     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GB002540     Document Type: Article

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