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Letter to the editor: Impacts of industrial atmospheric emissions on watershed export of dissolved ions in coastal streams: a Bayesian modeling approach

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    Shaun Watmough

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    Julian Aherne & David Marmorek

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Watmough, S., Aherne, J. & Marmorek, D. Letter to the editor: Impacts of industrial atmospheric emissions on watershed export of dissolved ions in coastal streams: a Bayesian modeling approach. Environ Monit Assess 193, 211 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-021-08963-w

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