Twenty-year inter-annual trends and seasonal variations in precipitation and stream water chemistry at the Bear Brook Watershed in Maine, USA

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 171, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 23-45

  Navrátil, Tomas ^b   Norton, Stephen A ^a   Fernandez, Ivan J ^a   Nelson, Sarah J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Bear Brook Watershed in Maine; Long term trends; Precipitation chemistry; Seasonality; Stream chemistry

Indexed keywords

BEAR BROOK WATERSHED IN MAINE; LONG-TERM TREND; PRECIPITATION CHEMISTRY; SEASONALITY; STREAM CHEMISTRY;

AIR POLLUTION; ALUMINUM; CALCIUM; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULICS; LANDFORMS; LEACHING; PH; POSITIVE IONS; WATERSHEDS;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS);

ALUMINUM; AMMONIA; CALCIUM; CHLORIDE; MAGNESIUM; NITRATE; ORGANIC CARBON; POTASSIUM; RIVER WATER; SILICON; SODIUM; STREAM WATER; SULFATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACID DEPOSITION; ACIDIFICATION; ANNUAL VARIATION; PRECIPITATION QUALITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY; STREAMWATER; WATER CHEMISTRY;

ACID DEPOSITION; ACID NEUTRALIZING CAPACITY; ACIDIFICATION; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); HYDROLOGY; MINERALOGY; PH; PRECIPITATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; STREAM (RIVER); TREND STUDY; WATER FLOW; WATERSHED MANAGEMENT; WEATHERING;

CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MAINE; RIVERS; SEASONS; WATER;

BEAR BROOK; MAINE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78149409692     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-010-1527-z     Document Type: Article

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