Effects of climate and land-surface processes on terrestrial dissolved organic carbon export to major U.S. coastal rivers

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 54, Issue , 2013, Pages 192-201

  Tian, Yong Q ^a   Yu, Qian ^b   Feig, Anthony D ^a   Ye, Changjiang ^b   Blunden, Ashley ^a  

^a CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Dissolved organic carbon; Watersheds

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL MEAN TEMPERATURES; CLIMATE WARMING; COASTAL RIVERS; COLUMBIA RIVER; DELAWARE RIVER; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; DOC CONCENTRATIONS; DOC EXPORT; LAND COVER; LAND SURFACE CHARACTERISTICS; LAND-SURFACE PROCESS; LARGE WATERSHEDS; MEAN VALUES; PRECIPITATION LEVEL; SAN JOAQUIN RIVER; SMALL WATERSHEDS; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE INCREASE; WEAK CORRELATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL ZONES; LANDFORMS; LASERS; STREAM FLOW; SURFACE DISCHARGES; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; WATERSHEDS;

RIVERS;

CARBON FLUX; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL WATER; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CORRELATION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; LAND SURFACE; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); RIVER; WATERSHED;

ALTAMAHA RIVER; CALIFORNIA; COLUMBIA RIVER; GEORGIA; SACRAMENTO; SAN JOAQUIN RIVER; SUSQUEHANNA RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84874535718     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2013.01.028     Document Type: Article

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