Projected stream water fluxes of NO3 and total organic carbon from the Storgama headwater catchment, Norway, under climate change and reduced acid deposition

Ambio

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 56-63

  De Wit, Heleen A ^a   Wright, Richard F ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; FRESH WATER; NITRATE; SNOW;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; SEASONAL VARIATION; STREAM; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON;

ACID RAIN; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASON; TEMPERATURE; WATER POLLUTANT;

ACID RAIN; CARBON; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; FRESH WATER; NITRATES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONS; SNOW; TEMPERATURE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 40949142348     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447(2008)37[56:PSWFON]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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54. This work was conducted as part of the project "CLUE - Effects of climate change on flux of N and C: air-land-freshwater-marine links" (NORKLIMA programme of the Research Council of Norway) and the EU Eurolimpacs project (the Commission of European Communities GOCE-CT-2003-505540). Thanks to Torill Engen-Skaugen (met.no) for climate data and their interpolations, Wenche Aas (NILU) for deposition data, the PRUDENCE project for providing the climate scenarios, Øyvind Kaste (NIVA) for adapting the climate scenarios to Storgama, and to Tore Høgåsen (NIVA) for assisting with linking databases. The monitoring data used in this paper were funded by the Norwegian Pollution Control Authority.