Factors controlling riffle-scale hyporheic exchange flows and their seasonal changes in a gaining stream: A three-dimensional groundwater flow model

Water Resources Research

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Storey, Richard G ^a,b   Howard, Kenneth W F ^a   Williams, D Dudley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b A Rocha Lebanon   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Groundwater surface water interactions; Hyporheic zone; Modeling; MODFLOW

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CHANNEL FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDRAULIC MODELS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; STREAM FLOW;

EXCHANGE FLOWS;

GROUNDWATER FLOW;

FLOW MODELING; GRAVEL BED STREAM; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTION; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYPORHEIC ZONE;

EID: 0347613073     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002WR001367     Document Type: Article

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