Demonstrating fractal scaling of baseflow residence time distributions using a fully-coupled groundwater and land surface model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Kollet, Stefan J ^a,b   Maxwell, Reed M ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; FRACTALS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULIC MODELS; HYDROGEOLOGY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MOLTEN MATERIALS; STEEL STRUCTURES; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACES; UNDERGROUND RESERVOIRS;

AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION; BASEFLOW (BF); FLOW PATHS; FRACTAL BEHAVIORS; FRACTAL SCALING; FULLY COUPLED; HILL SLOPES; LAGRANGIAN; LAND SURFACE MODEL (LSM); LAND-SURFACE PROCESSES; MACRODISPERSION; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; POWER LAW FORM; RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTION (RTD); SCALING BEHAVIORS; SPECTRA (CO); STREAM BEDS; SUBSURFACE TRANSPORT; SURFACE PROCESSING; VADOSE ZONES; WATERSHED MODELLING;

SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

BASEFLOW; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HILLSLOPE; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; RECHARGE; RESIDENCE TIME; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; STREAM BED; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; VADOSE ZONE; WATERSHED;

EID: 45549106500     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL033215     Document Type: Article

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