Dissolved nitrous oxide concentrations and fluxes from the eutrophic San Joaquin River, California

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1313-1322

  Hinshaw, Sarra E ^a   Dahlgren, Randy A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIFORNIA; EMISSIONS FACTORS; GAS EXCHANGE MODEL; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; IPCC METHODOLOGY; LARGE RIVERS; NITRATE CONCENTRATION; NITROUS OXIDE; PORE WATERS; POTENTIAL CONSTRAINTS; R VALUE; SAMPLING DATES; SAN JOAQUIN RIVER;

GREENHOUSE GASES; LEACHING; NITROGEN OXIDES; RIVERS;

DISSOLUTION;

GROUND WATER; NITROUS OXIDE; SURFACE WATER;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLVED GAS; EUTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; FLUX MEASUREMENT; GAS EXCHANGE; GREENHOUSE GAS; NITRATE; NITROUS OXIDE; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLLUTANT SOURCE; RIVER POLLUTION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WATER DEPTH;

ARTICLE; AUTUMN; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; EICHHORNIA CRASSIPES; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GAS DIFFUSION; GAS EXCHANGE; NITROGEN CYCLING; NONHUMAN; RIVER; SALINITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER; UNITED STATES; WATER QUALITY; WATER TEMPERATURE; WATERSHED; WINTER;

CALIFORNIA; EUTROPHICATION; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOTION; NITRATES; NITROUS OXIDE; RIVERS; SOLUBILITY; TEMPERATURE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

CALIFORNIA; SAN JOAQUIN RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84873472879     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es301373h     Document Type: Article

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