Continuous Seasonal River Ebullition Measurements Linked to Sediment Methane Formation

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 22, 2015, Pages 13121-13129

  Wilkinson, Jeremy ^a   Maeck, Andreas ^b   Alshboul, Zeyad ^a   Lorke, Andreas ^a  

^a University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

^b Senect GmbH and Co KG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; METHANATION; RIVERS; SEDIMENTS;

EMPIRICAL MODEL; MEASUREMENTS OF; METHANE EBULLITION; METHANE FORMATION; SEDIMENT DEPTH; SEDIMENT INCUBATIONS; SITE TO SITES; SUBSTRATE LIMITATION;

METHANE;

CARBON; METHANE; WATER;

ANNUAL CYCLE; CARBON; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; IMPOUNDMENT; LABORATORY METHOD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; METHANE; SEASONALITY;

ARTICLE; AUTUMN; CARBON SOURCE; GERMANY; RIVER; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE; WINTER; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SEASON;

GERMANY; SAAR RIVER;

CARBON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GERMANY; METHANE; RIVERS; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE; WATER;

EID: 84947215304     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b01525     Document Type: Article

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