Spatiotemporal patterns of drivers of episodic acidification in Swedish streams and their relationships to hydrometeorological factors

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 4633-4643

  Erlandsson, Martin ^a   Laudon, Hjalmar ^a   Fölster, Jens ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Base cations; Episodic acidification; Nitrate; Organic acids; Sea salt; Sulfate

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; BASE CATIONS; BASEFLOWS; EPISODIC ACIDIFICATION; FUTURE CLIMATE; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; PRE-INDUSTRIAL; SAMPLING FREQUENCIES; SEA SALTS; SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS; STREAM WATER; SULFATE; SULFATE CONCENTRATIONS;

NITRATES; ORGANIC ACIDS; POSITIVE IONS; TIME SERIES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CARBOXYLIC ACID; NITRATE; SULFATE; ACID; CHLORIDE; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; WATER POLLUTANT;

ACIDIFICATION; DILUTION; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; ORGANIC ACID; PH; SEA SALT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STREAMWATER;

ACIDIFICATION; ALKALINITY; ARTICLE; CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EPISODIC ACIDIFICATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALINITY; STREAM (RIVER); SWEDEN; WATER ANALYSIS; WETLAND; ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; RIVER; WATER POLLUTANT;

ACIDS; CHLORIDES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NITRATES; RIVERS; SULFATES; SWEDEN; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

SWEDEN;

EID: 77955923628     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.06.010     Document Type: Article

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