Urban stormwater runoff nitrogen composition and fate in bioretention systems

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 3403-3410

  Li, Liqing ^a   Davis, Allen P ^b  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; EFFLUENTS; ION EXCHANGE; LEACHING; NITROGEN OXIDES; PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORKS; RUNOFF; STORM SEWERS; STORMS;

BIORETENTION CELL; CONCENTRATION REDUCTION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC NITROGEN; NITROGEN COMPOSITION; ORGANIC NITROGEN; STORM WATER RUNOFF; URBAN STORMWATER; URBAN STORMWATER RUNOFF;

NITROGEN REMOVAL;

NITROGEN; ORGANIC NITROGEN; STORM WATER; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; NITRITE; RAIN; WATER POLLUTANT;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DENITRIFICATION; DETRITUS; EFFLUENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; NITROGEN COMPOUND; RUNOFF; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); STORMWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DETRITUS; ION EXCHANGE; NITRATE LEACHING; OXIDATION; REDUCTION; SEDIMENTATION; URBAN AREA; VEGETATION; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; CITY; DENITRIFICATION; DEVICES; PROCEDURES; WATER CYCLE; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTANT;

CITIES; DENITRIFICATION; NITRATES; NITRITES; NITROGEN; RAIN; WATER CYCLE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84898970584     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es4055302     Document Type: Article

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