Surface water quality is improving due to declining atmospheric N deposition

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 12193-12200

  Eshleman, Keith N ^a   Sabo, Robert D ^a   Kline, Kathleen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS; ATMOSPHERIC NITROGEN; CONCENTRATION TRENDS; ESTUARINE WATERS; FORESTED WATERSHEDS; NOX EMISSIONS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; SULFUR DEPOSITIONS;

DEPOSITION; EMISSION CONTROL; FORESTRY; NITRATES; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHEDS;

SURFACE WATERS;

NITRATE; NITROGEN; SULFUR; SURFACE WATER; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; EMISSION CONTROL; FORESTED CATCHMENT; NITROGEN; NITROGEN OXIDES; SATURATION; STREAMWATER; WATER QUALITY;

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED; ATMOSPHERE; CHEMISTRY; GEOGRAPHY; KINETICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME FACTOR; UNITED STATES;

APPALACHIANS;

APPALACHIAN REGION; ATMOSPHERE; GEOGRAPHY; KINETICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NITRATES; NITROGEN; TIME FACTORS; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 84887978644     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es4028748     Document Type: Article

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