Modelling particle residence times in agricultural river basins using a sediment budget model and fallout radionuclide tracers

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HGS acknowledges the support of a Marie Curie Fellowship (PIIF-GA-2010-273069) within the 7th European Community Framework Programme. This paper also represents a contribution to the International Atomic Energy Agency Coordinated Research Programme D1.20.11 under Research Agreement IAEA contract UK/15538 (WB). We thank staff from the Westcountry Rivers Trust for help with site selection and arranging access for river monitoring. We also acknowledge the contribution of Professor Geoff Millward to gamma spectrometry analysis and for lively discussion. We thank two anonymous reviewers whose comments helped improve the manuscript.