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British Geological Survey
Government•Nottingham, United Kingdom•
About: British Geological Survey is a government organization based out in Nottingham, United Kingdom. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Groundwater & Aquifer. The organization has 2561 authors who have published 7326 publications receiving 241944 citations.
Topics: Groundwater, Aquifer, Glacial period, Groundwater recharge, Holocene
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TL;DR: The 2011 WHO Guidelines for Drinking-Water Quality (fourth edition) advised a health-based value of 70μg/L for Mo but this is no longer promulgated as a formal guideline value as WHO consider such concentrations to be rarely found in drinking water as discussed by the authors.
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TL;DR: In this article, stable isotopes present in local ground water get into people's teeth before they are 12 years old, and act as a signature to the area where they grew up (and drank the water).
Abstract: Stable isotopes present in local ground water get into people's teeth before they are 12 years old, and act as a signature to the area where they grew up (and drank the water). In a review of recent work in Britain the authors show the huge potential of this method for detecting population movement – and thus ultimately for investigating questions of migration, exogamy and slavery.
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TL;DR: The vadose zone is an important store of nitrate that should be considered in future budgets for effective policymaking, and it is argued that in these areas use of conventional nitrogen budget approaches is inappropriate.
Abstract: Global-scale nitrogen budgets developed to quantify anthropogenic impacts on the nitrogen cycle do not explicitly consider nitrate stored in the vadose zone. Here we show that the vadose zone is an important store of nitrate that should be considered in future budgets for effective policymaking. Using estimates of groundwater depth and nitrate leaching for 1900–2000, we quantify the peak global storage of nitrate in the vadose zone as 605–1814 Teragrams (Tg). Estimates of nitrate storage are validated using basin-scale and national-scale estimates and observed groundwater nitrate data. Nitrate storage per unit area is greatest in North America, China and Europe where there are thick vadose zones and extensive historical agriculture. In these areas, long travel times in the vadose zone may delay the impact of changes in agricultural practices on groundwater quality. We argue that in these areas use of conventional nitrogen budget approaches is inappropriate. Current global-scale nitrogen (N) budgets quantifying anthropogenic impacts on the N cycle do not explicitly consider nitrate storage in the vadose zone. Here, using estimates of depth to groundwater and nitrate leaching between 1900–2000, the authors show that the vadose zone is an important store of nitrate.
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TL;DR: The authors reviewed the impact of anthropogenic climate change on water in the UK and looked at projections of future change, concluding that future changes in rainfall and evapotranspiration could lead to changed flow regimes and impacts on water quality, aquatic ecosystems and water availability.
Abstract: Climate change is expected to modify rainfall, temperature and catchment hydrological responses across the world, and adapting to these water-related changes is a pressing challenge. This paper reviews the impact of anthropogenic climate change on water in the UK and looks at projections of future change. The natural variability of the UK climate makes change hard to detect; only historical increases in air temperature can be attributed to anthropogenic climate forcing, but over the last 50 years more winter rainfall has been falling in intense events. Future changes in rainfall and evapotranspiration could lead to changed flow regimes and impacts on water quality, aquatic ecosystems and water availability. Summer flows may decrease on average, but floods may become larger and more frequent. River and lake water quality may decline as a result of higher water temperatures, lower river flows and increased algal blooms in summer, and because of higher flows in the winter. In communicating this important work, researchers should pay particular attention to explaining confidence and uncertainty clearly. Much of the relevant research is either global or highly localized: decision-makers would benefit from more studies that address water and climate change at a spatial and temporal scale appropriate for the decisions they make.
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University Centre in Svalbard1, Stockholm University2, University of Tromsø3, British Geological Survey4, Scott Polar Research Institute5, University of Alberta6, University of Copenhagen7, University of Iceland8, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research9, Aarhus University10, Norwegian University of Life Sciences11, University of New Hampshire12, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland13, Lund University14, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research15, Ohio State University16
TL;DR: While there are numerous hypotheses concerning glacial interglacial environmental and climatic regime shifts in the Arctic Ocean, a holistic view on the Northern Hemisphere's late Quaternary ice-sh...
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Randall R. Parrish | 68 | 212 | 16398 |
David J.A. Evans | 67 | 422 | 16984 |
Melanie J. Leng | 67 | 494 | 18588 |
Benjamin P. Horton | 65 | 278 | 12838 |
Jim W. Hall | 64 | 409 | 16381 |
Robert J. Pankhurst | 63 | 173 | 12938 |
Luuk K. Koopal | 63 | 210 | 13240 |
António Ferreira | 63 | 458 | 13726 |
Russell S. Harmon | 62 | 259 | 12597 |
Edward Tipping | 62 | 207 | 14676 |
Jon Woodhead | 61 | 226 | 16730 |
Gavin L. Foster | 61 | 182 | 12524 |
Paul Eggleton | 61 | 168 | 13421 |
Colin E. Snape | 60 | 430 | 14283 |
Andrew Binley | 59 | 278 | 16075 |