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Main Title Lake Superior Organic Carbon Budget.
Author Maier, Walter J. ; Swain., Wayland R. ;
CORP Author Environmental Research Lab.-Duluth, Grosse Ile, MI. Large Lakes Research Station. ;Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis. Dept. of Civil and Mineral Engineering.
Year Published 1977
Report Number EPA/600/J-78/039;
Stock Number PB-286 265
Additional Subjects Carbon ; Water pollution ; Lake Superior ; Concentration(Composition) ; Mathematical models ; Organic compounds ; Watersheds ; Drainage ; Biochemical cycles ; Oxidation ; Rainfall ; Photosynthesis ; Sedimentation ; Water flow ; Fresh water ; Great Lakes ; Reprints ; Eutrophication ; Carbon cycle ; Sinks
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NTIS  PB-286 265 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
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Abstract
The organic carbon concentration of Lake Superior is discussed in terms of a simple mathematical model that treats the lake as a well mixed basin. Major sources, outflows, and biochemically mediated removal of organic carbon are analyzed in the time frame of yearly average values. Data on organic carbon concentrations of watershed drainage, rainfall, anthropogenic inflows and contributions from photosynthetic production are analyzed as are the removal of organics by biochemical oxidation and sedimentation. The long range projected effects of the major sources and sinks on the yearly average organic carbon concentration of the lake are described.