Modeling the impacts of climate change on nitrogen retention in a 4th order stream

Climatic Change

Volumn 113, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 981-999

  Boyacioglu, H ^a,c   Vetter, T ^b   Krysanova, V ^b   Rode, M ^c  

^a DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE SCENARIOS; DENITRIFICATION PROCESS; DENITRIFICATION RATE; DISCHARGE CHANGES; ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS; FLOW CONDITION; FUTURE CLIMATE; GERMANY; HIGH FLOW; LOW FLOW; LOW FLOW CONDITION; NATURAL RIVER; NITROGEN CONCENTRATIONS; NITROGEN RETENTION; NITROGEN TURNOVER; RIVER MORPHOLOGY; RIVER SYSTEMS; RIVER WATER QUALITY; SEASONAL PATTERNS; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; UPPER BOUNDARY; WINTER CONDITIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENITRIFICATION; NITROGEN; RIVERS; WATER QUALITY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DENITRIFICATION; LOW FLOW; NITROGEN; RIVER DISCHARGE; RIVER SYSTEM; RIVER WATER; STREAM; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WATER QUALITY;

GERMANY;

EID: 84864282417     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0369-1     Document Type: Article

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