Hydrological flow paths during snowmelt: Congruence between hydrometric measurements and oxygen 18 in meltwater, soil water, and runoff

Water Resources Research

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Laudon, Hjalmar ^a   Seibert, Jan ^a   Köhler, Stephan ^b   Bishop, Kevin ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

Boreal; Hydrograph separation; Northern Sweden; Oxygen 18; Snowmelt; Spring flood; Transmissivity feedback

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FEEDBACK; ISOTOPES; OXYGEN; SNOW; SOILS; STREAM FLOW;

MASS BALANCE; PATHWAYS; SNOWMELT;

HYDROLOGY;

CATCHMENT; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; SNOWMELT; STREAMFLOW;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

EID: 2042418185     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003WR002455     Document Type: Article

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