A time series of environmental tracer data from deep, meromictic Lake Lugano, Switzerland

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 257-273

  Aeschbach Hertig, W ^a   Holzner, C P ^b,c   Hofer, M ^b   Simona, M ^d   Barbieri, A ^d   Kipfer, R ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d Dipartimento del Territorio   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA; DEEP WATER; HELIUM; HYDROCHEMISTRY; MEROMICTIC LAKE; TIME SERIES; TRACER; TRITIUM; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER EXCHANGE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; LAKE LUGANO;

EID: 34250827008     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2007.52.1.0257     Document Type: Article

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