Radioactive cesium discharge in stream water from a small watershed in forested headwaters during a typhoon flood event

Soil Science and Plant Nutrition

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 765-771

  Shinomiya, Yoshiki ^a   Tamai, Koji ^a   Kobayashi, Masahiro ^a   Ohnuki, Yasuhiro ^a   Shimizu, Takanori ^a   Iida, Shin’ichi ^a   Nobuhiro, Tatsuhiko ^a   Sawano, Shinji ^a   Tsuboyama, Yoshio ^a   Hiruta, Toshihide ^b  

^a FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b Fukushima Prefectural Forestry Research Centre   (Japan)

Author keywords

FDNPP accident; radioactive Cs contaminated forest; radioactive Cs runoff; stream water quality; suspended solid

Indexed keywords

EID: 84912114381     PISSN: 00380768     EISSN: 17470765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00380768.2014.949852     Document Type: Article

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