Dynamics of groundwater-derived nitrate and nitrous oxide in a tidal estuary from radon mass balance modeling

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1689-1706

  Wong, Wei Wen ^a   Grace, Michael R ^a   Cartwright, Ian ^a,b   Cardenas, M Bayani ^c   Zamora, Peter B ^c   Cook, Perran L M ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASEFLOW; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CHEMICAL MASS BALANCE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ESTUARINE CHEMISTRY; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER-SEAWATER INTERACTION; NITRATE; NITROUS OXIDE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PYCNOCLINE; RADON ISOTOPE; SURFACE LAYER;

AUSTRALIA; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA]; WERRIBEE ESTUARY;

EID: 84894468560     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2013.58.5.1689     Document Type: Article

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