What is the role of fresh groundwater and recirculated seawater in conveying nutrients to the coastal ocean?

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 5195-5200

  Weinstein, Yishai ^a   Yechieli, Yoseph ^b   Shalem, Yehuda ^a,b,e   Burnett, William C ^c   Swarzenski, Peter W ^d   Herut, Barak ^e  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^e ISRAEL OCEANOGRAPHIC AND LIMNOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL OCEAN; COASTAL SYSTEMS; COASTAL WATERS; DENITRIFICATION PROCESS; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; NUTRIENT LOADS; OLIGOTROPHIC SEA; SEA FLOOR; SEEPAGE METERS; SUBMARINE GROUNDWATER DISCHARGE; SUBTERRANEAN ESTUARY; SYSTEMATIC EVALUATION; TROPHIC CONDITIONS;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); ESTUARIES; EUTROPHICATION; GROUNDWATER; SEAWATER; SILICA;

NUTRIENTS;

AMMONIA; GROUND WATER; NITROGEN; SEA WATER; SILICON DIOXIDE;

AMMONIUM; COASTAL WATER; DENITRIFICATION; DILUTION; DISCHARGE; DISSOLVED INORGANIC NITROGEN; ESTUARINE CHEMISTRY; GROUNDWATER FLOW; LAND-SEA INTERACTION; NUTRIENT BUDGET; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; RECIRCULATING SYSTEM; SEAWATER; SUBTERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT;

ARTICLE; COASTAL WATERS; DENITRIFICATION; ESTUARY; HYDROLOGY; NUTRIENT;

FRESH WATER; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MOTION; NITRATES; OCEANS AND SEAS; RADON; SALINITY; SEAWATER; SOIL; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER SUPPLY;

DOR BAY; HAIFA [ISRAEL]; ISRAEL;

EID: 79959245799     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es104394r     Document Type: Article

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