Assessment of temporal and spatial variation in chemical composition of groundwater in an unconfined esker aquifer in the cold temperate climate of Northern Finland

Cold Regions Science and Technology

Volumn 71, Issue , 2012, Pages 118-128

  Okkonen, Jarkko ^a   Kløve, Bjørn ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cold region; Groundwater quality; Groundwater surface water interaction; Snowmelt recharge; Statistical analysis

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER RECHARGE; BIPLOTS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; COLD REGIONS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ENDMEMBERS; FINLAND; GROUNDWATER CHEMISTRY; GROUNDWATER QUALITY; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTION; NITROGEN SOURCES; SNOWMELT; SOLUTE CONCENTRATIONS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION; TEMPERATE CLIMATE; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIATION; WATER INTRUSIONS; WATER SAMPLES;

AQUIFERS; CHLORINE; CLIMATOLOGY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROCHEMISTRY; SILICON COMPOUNDS; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL METHODS; SURFACE WATERS; TIME SERIES; WATER LEVELS; WATER QUALITY;

RECHARGING (UNDERGROUND WATERS);

AQUIFER; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COLD REGION; ESKER; GROUNDWATER; SNOWMELT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

FINLAND;

EID: 83955163731     PISSN: 0165232X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coldregions.2011.10.003     Document Type: Article

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