Wet deposition of 210Pb aerosols over two areas of contrasting topography

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Likuku, A S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b BOTSWANA COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE   (Botswana)

Author keywords

Enhancement; Orography; Seeder feeder; Wet deposition

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; DEPOSITION; FEEDING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LANDFORMS; RAIN;

ANNUAL RAINFALL; COMPLEX TERRAINS; DEPOSITION FLUXES; INPUT PARAMETER; OROGRAPHY; PB CONCENTRATION; SEEDER-FEEDER; WET DEPOSITION;

LEAD;

EID: 33846624691     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/1/1/014007     Document Type: Article

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