Temporal and spatial variations in the discharge and dissolved organic carbon of drip waters in Beijing Shihua Cave, China

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 22, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 3749-3758

  Ban, Fengmei ^a,b   Pan, Genxing ^a   Zhu, Jian ^b   Cai, Binggui ^b   Tan, Ming ^b  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

China; Discharge; Dissolved organic carbon; Drip water; Shihua Cave; Stalagmite lamina

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CAVES; CHEMICAL SENSORS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISSOLUTION; FLUID MECHANICS; LANDFORMS; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); STREAM FLOW; SURFACE DISCHARGES; WATER CONTENT;

BEIJING; CAUSAL RELATIONSHIPS; CAVE DRIP WATERS; CHINA; DISCHARGE; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; DRIP DISCHARGE; DRIP WATER; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITIES; INTRA-ANNUAL VARIABILITY; RAIN EVENTS; RAINFALL INTENSITIES; RAPID RESPONSE; SHIHUA CAVE; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; STALAGMITE LAMINA; SURFACE PRECIPITATION; TWO TYPES; WATER DISCHARGING;

DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS);

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RIVER DISCHARGE; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPELEOTHEM; STALAGMITE; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ASIA; BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 52249087954     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.6979     Document Type: Article

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