Nitrate attenuation in agricultural catchments: Shifting balances between transport and reaction

Water Resources Research

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Ocampo, Carlos J ^a,b   Oldham, Carolyn E ^a   Sivapalan, Murugesu ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL LITORAL   (Argentina)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; CATCHMENTS; DATA ACQUISITION; DENITRIFICATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; HYDROLOGY; TRACE ANALYSIS;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROCESSES; DIMENSIONLESS NUMBER; HYDROLOGICAL CONNECTIVITY; NITRATE ATTENUATION;

NITRATES;

AQUIFERS; CATCHMENTS; DATA ACQUISITION; DENITRIFICATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; HYDROLOGY; NITRATES; TRACE ANALYSIS;

AGRICULTURAL CATCHMENT; AQUIFER; DENITRIFICATION; GROUNDWATER; NITRATE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 33644815604     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004WR003773     Document Type: Article

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