Control on sediment and organic carbon delivery to the Arctic Ocean revealed with space-borne synthetic aperture radar: Ob' River, Siberia

Geology

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 395-398

  Smith, Laurence C ^a   Alsdorf, Douglas E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS; FLOODS; ORGANIC CARBON; RIVERS; SEDIMENTS;

COLLOIDAL ORGANIC CARBON; DOMINANT PROCESS; EPHEMERAL CHANNELS; FIELD MEASUREMENT; INTERFEROMETRIC IMAGES; NUTRIENT EXCHANGE; SEDIMENT DELIVERY; WATER DISCHARGES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

HYDROLOGIC EXCHANGE; ORGANIC CARBON; RIVER BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; SAR; SEDIMENT LOAD;

ARCTIC OCEAN; OB RIVER; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SIBERIA;

EID: 84879879731     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1998)026<0395:COSAOC>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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