Trends in drought frequency - The fate of DOC export from British peatlands

Climatic Change

Volumn 76, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 339-359

  Worrall, F ^a   Burt, T P ^b   Adamson, J K ^c  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; HYDROLOGY; HYDROPHOBICITY; INFORMATION USE;

CLIMATIC RECORDS; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; DROUGHT SEVERITY; HYDROPHOBIC EFFECTS;

DROUGHT;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; DROUGHT; PEATLAND; TIME SERIES;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33746206395     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-006-9069-7     Document Type: Article

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