Punctual and continuous estimation of transit time from dissolved organic matter fluorescence properties in karst aquifers, application to groundwaters of 'Fontaine de Vaucluse' experimental basin (SE France)

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2299-2309

  Blondel, T ^a   Emblanch, C ^a   Batiot Guilhe, C ^b   Dudal, Y ^c   Boyer, D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVIGNON   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTPELLIER   (France)

^c MONTPELLIER SUPAGRO   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Dissolved organic matter; Environmental tracing method; Fluorescence spectroscopy; Karst groundwaters

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENT BASINS; CHARACTERIZATION TECHNIQUES; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTERS; ENVIRONMENTAL TRACING; EXPERIMENTAL BASIN; FLUORESCENCE INDICES; FLUORESCENCE INTENSITIES; FLUORESCENCE PROPERTIES; FLUORESCENCE SIGNALS; FLUORESCENT COMPOUNDS; HUMIFICATION INDEX; HYDRO-SYSTEM; HYDROCHEMICAL STUDY; HYDROGEOLOGICAL; HYDROSYSTEMS; KARST AQUIFER; KARST GROUNDWATER; KARSTIC; KARSTIC AQUIFER; LEACHATES; LOGARITHMIC RELATIONSHIP; LOW NOISE; MEAN TRANSIT TIME; SEMI-QUANTITATIVE; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON CONTENT; TRACING METHOD; TRANSIT TIME; UNDERGROUND LABORATORY; VADOSE ZONE; WAVELENGTH PAIR;

AQUIFERS; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CATCHMENTS; ESTIMATION; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROCHEMISTRY; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYDROGEOLOGY; LANDFORMS;

FLUORESCENCE;

CALIBRATION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; ESTIMATION METHOD; FILTRATION; FLUORESCENCE; HYDROGEOLOGY; KARST; LEACHATE; VADOSE ZONE;

FRANCE; PROVENCE-ALPES-COTE D'AZUR; VAUCLUSE;

EID: 84859104322     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-012-1562-x     Document Type: Article

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