Calculating critical loads for acidification for five forested catchments in China using an extended steady state function

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 387, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 54-67

  Zhao, Yu ^a   Duan, Lei ^a   Larssen, Thorjorn ^b   Mulder, Jan ^c   Hu, Lanhua ^a   Hao, Jiming ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Acidification; Base cation deposition; China; Critical load; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

ACIDITY; CHINA; POSITIVE IONS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ACIDIFICATION; ANTHROPOGENIC ORIGIN; BASE CATION DEPOSITION; CRITICAL LOAD CALCULATIONS; CRITICAL LOADS; FORESTED CATCHMENTS; STEADY STATE MASS BALANCE METHODS;

CATCHMENTS;

ALKALI; CATION; SULFUR;

ACID DEPOSITION; ACIDIFICATION; CRITICAL LOAD; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; FORESTED CATCHMENT; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MASS BALANCE; MITIGATION; NITROGEN; POLLUTION CONTROL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM; SULFUR;

ACIDIFICATION; ALKALINITY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CATCHMENT; CHINA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STEADY STATE; UNCERTAINTY;

ACID RAIN; AIR POLLUTANTS; CATIONS; CHINA; METALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NITROGEN; SULFUR; TREES;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 36649032919     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2007.07.014     Document Type: Article

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