The role of precipitation type, intensity, and spatial distribution in source water quality after wildfire

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Murphy, Sheila F ^a   Writer, Jeffrey H ^a,b   McCleskey, R Blaine ^a   Martin, Deborah A ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Forests; Landscape disturbance; North American Monsoon; Rainfall intensity; Water quality; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); CLIMATE CHANGE; FIRES; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HYDROCHEMISTRY; MANGANESE REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); NITRATES; NITROGEN REMOVAL; ORGANIC CARBON; POTABLE WATER; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN; RAIN GAGES; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTS; STORMS; SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS; WATER; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; WATER TREATMENT;

FORESTS; LANDSCAPE DISTURBANCE; NORTH AMERICAN; RAINFALL INTENSITY; WILDFIRE;

RIVERS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONVECTION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; DRINKING WATER; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; MANGANESE; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RUNOFF; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STORM; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; WATER QUALITY; WILDFIRE;

COLORADO; FRONT RANGE; ROCKY MOUNTAINS;

EID: 84948419769     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/8/084007     Document Type: Article

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