Hydrologic and topographic controls on storm-event exports of dissolved organic carbon (BOC) and nitrate across catchment scales

Water Resources Research

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Inamdar, Shreeram P ^a,b   Mitchell, Myron J ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDROLOGY; MOISTURE; NITRATES; STREAM FLOW;

DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON (DOC); GLACIATION; MIXING ANALYSIS; RIPARIAN WATER;

STORMS;

CATCHMENTS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDROLOGY; MOISTURE; NITRATES; STORMS; STREAM FLOW;

EID: 33644783143     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005WR004212     Document Type: Article

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