Modeling the stream water nitrate dynamics in a 60,000-km2 European catchment, the garonne, southwest France

Journal of Environmental Quality

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2155-2169

  Tisseuil, Clément ^a   Wade, Andrew J ^b   Tudesque, Loïc ^a   Lek, Sovan ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CONTROL; DYNAMICS; EFFLUENTS; LAND USE; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; RUNOFF;

CATCHMENT MODELS; CLIMATE ZONES; DATA SETS; EUROPEANS; LAND COVERS; LAND MANAGEMENTS; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICS; N CYCLES; NITRATE DYNAMICS; POINT SOURCES; RELATIVE INPUTS; RIVER SYSTEMS; RUNOFF MODELS; SEASONAL PATTERNS; STREAM WATERS; TEMPORAL DYNAMICS; WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVES;

RIVERS;

NITRATE; RUNOFF;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CATCHMENT; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FRANCE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NITROGEN DYNAMICS; SEASON; STREAM (RIVER);

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRANCE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NITRATES; RIVERS; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS;

EID: 57049136498     PISSN: 00472425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/jeq2007.0507     Document Type: Article

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