Effect of freshets on the flux of groundwater nitrate through streambed sediments

Water Resources Research

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Gu, Chuanhui ^a,b   Hornberger, George M ^a   Herman, Janet S ^a   Mills, Aaron L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b Berkeley Water Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEWATERING; DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); ELASTIC MODULI; FLUID MECHANICS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDRAULICS; HYDROGEOLOGY; MODELS; NITRATES; NUMERICAL METHODS; RIVERS; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TRANSIENT ANALYSIS; UNDERGROUND RESERVOIRS;

BIOLOGICAL PROCESSING; CONTAMINATED GROUNDWATER; DISCHARGE RATES; FLOW-THROUGH; HYDRAULIC DIFFUSIVITY; LABORATO RY STUDIES; NITRATE FLUXES; NITRATE LOADINGS; NUMERICAL MODELLING; STORM EVENTS; STREAM SEDIMENTS; STREAM WATERS; STREAMBED SEDIMENTS; TEMPORARY STORAGE; TRANSIENT REDUCTION;

NITROGEN REMOVAL;

DENITRIFICATION; DIFFUSIVITY; FLOOD WAVE; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; LABORATORY METHOD; NITRATE; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; RESIDENCE TIME; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; STORM; STREAM BED; STREAMWATER; SUBSURFACE FLOW; SURFACE WATER; WATER FLOW;

EID: 46049087916     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007WR006488     Document Type: Article

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