Pollutant release from a disturbed urban snowpack in northern Sweden

Water Quality Research Journal of Canada

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 98-109

  Westerlund, Camilla ^a   Viklander, Maria ^a  

^a LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Chloride; Heavy metals; Road runoff; Snowmelt; Suspended solids; Urban snowpack

Indexed keywords

CHLORIDE; ROAD RUNOFF; SNOWMELT; SUSPENDED SOLIDS; URBAN SNOWPACK;

CADMIUM; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COPPER; DISSOLUTION; HEAVY METALS; HEAVY WATER; LEAD; MAINTENANCE; POLLUTION; ROADS AND STREETS; RUNOFF; RURAL AREAS; SNOW; WATER QUALITY;

SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CHLORIDE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HEAVY METAL; PH; POLLUTANT; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; RURAL AREA; SNOWMELT; SNOWPACK; URBAN AREA; URBAN POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

LULEA; NORRBOTTEN; SWEDEN;

EID: 83055195165     PISSN: 12013080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wqrjc.2011.025     Document Type: Article

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