Dynamic modeling of the Ganga river system: Impacts of future climate and socio-economic change on flows and nitrogen fluxes in India and Bangladesh

Environmental Science: Processes and Impacts

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1082-1097

  Whitehead, P G ^a   Sarkar, S ^b   Jin, L ^c   Futter, M N ^d   Caesar, J ^e   Barbour, E ^a   Butterfield, D ^a   Sinha, R ^b   Nicholls, R ^f   Hutton, C ^f   Leckie, H D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^e MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; GROUND WATER; NITRATE; NITROGEN; RAIN; WATER POLLUTANT;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOOD INDUSTRY; HYDROLOGY; INDIA; LAND USE; NITROGEN DEPOSITION; NITROGEN DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT; SOCIAL STATUS; SOIL MOISTURE; TEMPERATURE; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; ANALYSIS; BANGLADESH; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; SOCIOECONOMICS; WATER POLLUTANT;

BANGLADESH; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INDIA; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NITROGEN; RIVERS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WATER POLLUTANTS;

EID: 84931055769     PISSN: 20507887     EISSN: 20507895     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c4em00616j     Document Type: Article

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