The effect of warming climate on nutrient and solute export from the Greenland Ice Sheet

Geochemical Perspectives Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 94-104

  Hawkings, J R ^a   Wadham, J L ^a   Tranter, M ^a   Lawson, E ^a,b   Sole, A ^c   Cowton, T ^c,d   Tedstone, A J ^d   Bartholomew, I ^d   Nienow, P ^d   Chandler, D ^a   Telling, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENT; DISCHARGE; GLOBAL WARMING; MELTING; MELTWATER; NUTRIENT CYCLING; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 84961706167     PISSN: 2410339X     EISSN: 24103403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7185/geochemlet.1510     Document Type: Article

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