Modeling the dissolved organic carbon output from a boreal mire using the convection-dispersion equation: Importance of representing sorption

Water Resources Research

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Yurova, Alla ^a   Sirin, Andrey ^b   Buffam, Ishi ^c   Bishop, Kevin ^c   Laudon, Hjalmar ^c  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b INSTITUTE OF FOREST SCIENCE   (Russian Federation)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CARBON; DISPERSION (WAVES); DISSOLUTION; PEAT; SORPTION; STREAM FLOW; WATER ANALYSIS;

CONVECTION-DISPERSION EQUATION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; HEAD WATERS; LITERATURE DATA; MEAN BIAS ERROR; MODEL FIT; MODEL PARAMETERS; PEAT MATRIX; SORPTION PROCESSES; STAGNANT WATER; WATER BASED;

ORGANIC CARBON;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONVECTION; DISCHARGE; DISPERSION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HEADWATER; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MIRE; PEAT; SOLUBILITY; SORPTION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EID: 53649101357     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007WR006523     Document Type: Article

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