Biogeochemical Fluxes of Nitrogen in Chao Phraya River Basin, Thailand
Suparb Paramee*, Amnat Chidthaisong, Sirintornthep Towprayoon, Nipon Tangtham, Pongpor Asnachinda and Viadimir N. Bashkin* Author for corresponding; e-mail address: suparbp@yahoo.com
Volume: Vol.30 No.3 (DECEMBER 2003)
Research Article
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Received: 29 March 2003, Revised: -, Accepted: 23 September 2003, Published: -
Citation: Paramee S., Chidthaisong A., Towprayoon S., Tangtham N., Asnachinda P. and Bashkin V.N., Biogeochemical Fluxes of Nitrogen in Chao Phraya River Basin, Thailand, Chiang Mai Journal of Science, 2003; 30(3): 195-202.
Abstract
The study aimed at determining N dynamics in Chao Phraya river basin and its tributaries during April 1999 - March 2002. Wet deposition and streamwater chemistry of N was quantitatively estimated in which covering three annual cycles. It was found that annual rainfall in the river basin ranged between 748 to1,728 mm. Streamwater discharges fed from the main tributaries of the basin were accounted for 27, 13, 11, 27, 16 and 17% of rainfall input onto the Ping. Wang, Yom, Nan, Pasak, and Sakae Krang sub-river basins respectively. Wet deposition of NO3-N and NH4-N onto the upper part of the basin were estimated to be 4.54 and 5.26 kg ha-1 yr-1 (15,720 and 18,193 t yr-1) and to the lower basin were found to be 8.64 and 8.05 kg ha-1 yr-1 (24,456 and 22, 765 t yr-1) respectively. The higher loading of N onto the lower basin than the upper part due to Human activities such as industrial and mobile exhausts consequently for incoming of air pollution. Loading of inorganic-N (NO3-N + NO2-N + NH4-N) and organic-N in streamwater were estimated of 26,247 and 35,037 t yr-1 losing from the Chao Phraya basin into the Gulf of Thailand.