A global assessment of climate-water quality relationships in large rivers: An elasticity perspective

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 468-469, Issue , 2014, Pages 877-891

  Jiang, Jiping ^a,b   Sharma, Ashish ^b   Sivakumar, Bellie ^b,c   Wang, Peng ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Air temperature; Elasticity; Large rivers; Precipitation; Sensitivity; Water quality

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; NUTRIENTS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RIVERS; TURBIDITY; WATER POLLUTION CONTROL; WATER QUALITY;

AIR-TEMPERATURE; ANTHROPOGENIC ACTIVITY; CHARACTERISTICS AND MECHANISMS; LARGE RIVERS; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATIONS; SENSITIVITY; STATISTICAL CORRELATION; WATER QUALITY PARAMETERS;

ELASTICITY;

AMMONIA; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; NITRITE; NITROGEN; ORGANIC CARBON; PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHORUS; RIVER WATER; SURFACE WATER;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ELASTICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HUMAN ACTIVITY; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); RIVER WATER; SEASONAL VARIATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STREAMWATER; TURBIDITY; WATER QUALITY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; HUMAN IMPACT (ENVIRONMENT); LAND USE; LATITUDE; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STREAM (RIVER); TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TURBIDITY; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

AIR-TEMPERATURE; ELASTICITY; LARGE RIVERS; PRECIPITATION; SENSITIVITY; WATER QUALITY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RIVERS; WATER QUALITY; WEATHER;

EID: 84884712252     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.09.002     Document Type: Article

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