A multi-isotope approach for estimating industrial contributions to atmospheric nitrogen deposition in the Athabasca oil sands region in Alberta, Canada

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 182, Issue , 2013, Pages 80-91

  Proemse, Bernadette C ^a   Mayer, Bernhard ^a   Fenn, Mark E ^b   Ross, Christopher S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b PACIFIC SOUTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Alberta; Athabasca; Atmospheric nitrate; Deposition; Nitrogen isotopes; Oil sands; Oxygen isotopes; Oxygen 17; Throughfall

Indexed keywords

ALBERTA; ATHABASCA; ATMOSPHERIC NITRATES; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; OXYGEN-17; THROUGHFALL;

DEPOSITION; DEPOSITION RATES; ESTIMATION; INDUSTRY; ISOTOPES; NITRATES; NITROGEN; OIL SANDS; OXYGEN;

INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS;

AMMONIA; NITRATE; NITROGEN; NITROGEN 15; OXYGEN 17; OXYGEN 18;

AMMONIUM; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; NITRATE; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; OIL SAND; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; THROUGHFALL;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CANADA; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; OIL INDUSTRY; POLLUTION MONITORING;

ALBERTA; ATHABASCA; ATMOSPHERIC NITRATE; DEPOSITION; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; OIL SANDS; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; OXYGEN-17; THROUGHFALL;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ALBERTA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; NITROGEN; OIL AND GAS FIELDS; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

ALBERTA; ATHABASCA OIL SANDS; CANADA;

EID: 84880872803     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: 18736424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2013.07.004     Document Type: Article

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