Riverine N2O concentrations, exports to estuary and emissions to atmosphere from the Changjiang River in response to increasing nitrogen loads

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Yan, Weijin ^a   Yang, Libiao ^a   Wang, Fang ^a   Wang, Jianing ^a   Ma, Pei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIURNAL PATTERN; DIURNAL STUDY; EMISSION FACTORS; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; MEAN VALUES; NITROGEN LOADS; RIVER CHANNELS; RIVER SYSTEMS; SEASONAL PATTERNS; TEMPORAL SCALE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DISSOLUTION; ESTUARIES; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; NITROGEN; RIVERS;

AIR POLLUTION;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DENITRIFICATION; EMISSION; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; ESTUARINE POLLUTION; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; NITROGEN; NITROUS OXIDE; SATURATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

CHINA; YANGTZE ESTUARY;

EID: 84868018763     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GB003984     Document Type: Article

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