Nitrous oxide emissions from tropical hydroelectric reservoirs

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Guérin, Frédéric ^a,b,c   Abril, Gwenaël ^b   Tremblay, Alain ^d   Delmas, Robert ^a,e  

^a LABORATOIRE D AÉROLOGIE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ BORDEAUX 1   (France)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d HYDRO QUÉBEC   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE LA RÉUNION   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; EMISSION CONTROL; GAS EMISSIONS; HYDROELECTRIC POWER; RIVERS;

TROPICAL HYDROELECTRIC RESERVOIRS;

NITROGEN OXIDES;

DEGASSING; EMISSION; FLUX MEASUREMENT; GLOBAL WARMING; HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANT; NITROUS OXIDE; RESERVOIR; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

CENTRAL AMERICA; FRENCH GUIANA; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA]; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 44349138744     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL033057     Document Type: Article

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