Lena Delta hydrology and geochemistry: Long-term hydrological data and recent field observations

Biogeosciences

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 345-363

  Fedorova, I ^a,b   Chetverova, A ^a,b   Bolshiyanov, D ^a,b   Makarov, A ^a,b   Boike, J ^c   Heim, B ^c   Morgenstern, A ^c   Overduin, P P ^c   Wegner, C ^d   Kashina, V ^b   Eulenburg, A ^c   Dobrotina, E ^a   Sidorina, I ^b  

^a ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; DATA SET; DELTA; FIELD METHOD; FLUVIAL PROCESS; HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY; RIVER DISCHARGE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

LENA DELTA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAKHA;

EID: 84921345833     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-12-345-2015     Document Type: Article

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