Modelling Surface Water Acidification in the UK: Application of the MAGIC model to the Acid Waters Monitoring Network

The results of a detailed study in the mid-1990s involving the application of the MAGIC model (Model of Acidification of Groundwater in Catchments) to the 21 sites of the UK Acid Waters Monitoring Network and providing an assessment of the 1994 Oslo protocol to limit sulphur emissions across Europe. The MAGIC model allows long-term trends in soil and surface water acidification to be reconstructed and predicted at the catchment level. The report also provided an assessment of the combined effects of acidic deposition and land-use change.