Wildfire altering terrestrial precursors of disinfection byproducts in forest detritus

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 5921-5929

  Wang, Jun Jian ^a   Dahlgren, Randy A ^b   Erşan, Mahmut S ^c   Karanfil, Tanju ^c   Chow, Alex T ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Clemson University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINATION; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BYPRODUCTS; DISINFECTION; FIRES; FORESTRY; HYDRATES; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; POTABLE WATER; WATER; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; WATER POLLUTION CONTROL; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

DISINFECTION BY-PRODUCT; DISINFECTION BYPRODUCTS; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTERS; EMISSION EXCITATION; FOREST WATERSHEDS; N-NITROSODIMETHYLAMINE; WATER EXTRACTABLE ORGANIC CARBON; WATER EXTRACTABLE ORGANIC MATTER;

CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT);

CHLORAL HYDRATE; DISINFECTANT AGENT; HALOKETONE; ORGANIC MATTER; ORGANIC NITROGEN; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; TRIHALOMETHANE; WATER; BROMINE; CARBON; DIMETHYLNITROSAMINE; NITROGEN;

CHLORINATION; DETRITUS; DISINFECTION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; DISTURBANCE; DRINKING WATER; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; WILDFIRE;

ARTICLE; ASH; CARCINOGENICITY; CHLORINATION; COMBUSTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETRITUS; DISINFECTION; FIRE; FOREST; ION CYCLOTRON RESONANCE MASS SPECTROMETRY; MINERALIZATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OXIDATION; PH; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SURFACE SOIL; THERMOMETER; VEGETATION; VOLATILIZATION; WASTE; WATER QUALITY; WILDFIRE; FLUORESCENCE; HALOGENATION; UNITED STATES;

BYPRODUCTS; FORESTS; ORGANIC MATTER;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

FRAXINUS AMERICANA; FRAXINUS NIGRA;

BROMINE; CALIFORNIA; CARBON; DIMETHYLNITROSAMINE; DISINFECTION; FIRES; FLUORESCENCE; FORESTS; HALOGENATION; NITROGEN; TRIHALOMETHANES; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 84929589695     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es505836m     Document Type: Article

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