Seasonal trends of NH+4 and NO-3 nitrogen isotope composition in rain collected at Jülich, Germany

H. D. Freyer

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v30i1.10319

Seasonal trends of NH+4 and NO-3 nitrogen isotope composition in rain collected at Jülich, Germany

Tellus

Volume 30 (1978): Issue 1

By: H. D. Freyer

Open Access

|Jan 1978

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