Relative contributions of transient and steady state infiltration during ephemeral streamflow

Water Resources Research

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2006, Pages

  Blasch, Kyle W ^a   Ferré, Ty P A ^b   Hoffmann, John P ^a   Fleming, John B ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; INFILTRATION; SEDIMENTS;

GROUNDWATER RECHARGE; PIEZOMETRIC MEASUREMENTS; STREAMFLOW; TRANSIENT INFILTRATION;

STREAM FLOW;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; INFILTRATION; SEDIMENTS; STREAM FLOW;

BASIN FILL; EPHEMERAL STREAM; INFILTRATION; SIMULATION; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM; STREAMFLOW; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TRANSIENT FLOW; WATER CONTENT; WATER FLOW;

EID: 33749399932     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005WR004049     Document Type: Article

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