Stream water carbon controls in seasonally snow-covered mountain catchments: Impact of inter-annual variability of water fluxes, catchment aspect and seasonal processes

Biogeochemistry

Volumn 118, Issue 1-3, 2014, Pages 273-290

  Perdrial, Julia N ^a,e   McIntosh, Jennifer ^a   Harpold, Adrian ^a   Brooks, Paul D ^a   Zapata Rios, Xavier ^a   Ray, James ^b   Meixner, Thomas ^a   Kanduc, Tjasa ^c   Litvak, Marcy ^d   Troch, Peter A ^a   Chorover, Jon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND   (United States)

^c JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Aspect; Carbon export; Headwater catchment; In stream processes; Snowmelt; Water fluxes

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON FLUX; CATCHMENT; CORRELATION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; HILLSLOPE; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RESERVOIR; RESPIRATION; SEASONALITY; SIGNALING; SNOW COVER; SNOWMELT; STREAM;

NEW MEXICO; UNITED STATES; VALLES CALDERA NATIONAL PRESERVE;

EID: 84896394121     PISSN: 01682563     EISSN: 1573515X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10533-013-9929-y     Document Type: Article

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