Groundwater dynamics in subterranean estuaries of coastal unconfined aquifers: Controls on submarine groundwater discharge and chemical inputs to the ocean
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Clare E. Robinson, Pei Xin, Isaac R. Santos, Matthew A. Charette, Ling Li, D. A. Barry 1 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Western University, London, Canada 2 State Key Laboratory of Hydrology-Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing, China National Marine Science Centre, Southern Cross University, Coffs Harbour, NSW, Australia 4 Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA 5 School of Civil Engineering, The University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia 6 Laboratoire de technologie écologique (ECOL), Institut d’ingénierie de l’environnement (IIE), Faculté de l’environnement naturel, architectural et construit (ENAC), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
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تاریخ انتشار 2017