Submarine groundwater discharge at a single spot location: Evaluation of different detection approaches

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 584-601

  Schubert, Michael ^a   Scholten, Jan ^b   Schmidt, Axel ^a,c   Comanducci, Jean François ^d   Pham, Mai Khanh ^a   Mallast, Ulf ^a   Knoeller, Kay ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF HYDROLOGY   (Germany)

^d International Atomic Energy Agency Marine Environment Laboratories   (Monaco)

Author keywords

Environmental tracers; Multi temporal thermal remote sensing; Radium; Radon; SGD; Stable isotopes; Submarine groundwater discharge

Indexed keywords

GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOLOGY; RADIUM; RADON; REMOTE SENSING; TOOLS;

ENVIRONMENTAL TRACERS; SGD; STABLE ISOTOPES; SUBMARINE GROUNDWATER DISCHARGE; THERMAL REMOTE SENSING;

ISOTOPES;

AIR TEMPERATURE; COASTAL WATER; DETECTION METHOD; DISCHARGE; HYDROGEN ISOTOPE; HYDROGEOLOGY; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; KARST; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; RADIONUCLIDE; REMOTE SENSING; WATER TEMPERATURE;

FRANCE;

EID: 84899894020     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w6030584     Document Type: Article

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