Method for estimating spatially variable seepage loss and hydraulic conductivity in intermittent and ephemeral streams

Water Resources Research

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Niswonger, R G ^a   Prudic, D E ^a   Fogg, G E ^b   Stonestrom, D A ^c   Buckland, E M ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC MODULI; FLUID MECHANICS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDRAULICS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STREAM FLOW; WAVE EQUATIONS;

CHANNEL ROUGHNESS; COUPLED MODELING; EPHEMERAL STREAMS; FRONT VELOCITY; IN CHANNELS; KINEMATIC WAVE EQUATIONS; LOSS RATES; STREAM BEDS; UNSATURATED ZONES; WATER REDISTRIBUTION;

SEEPAGE;

EPHEMERAL STREAM; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; INFILTRATION; KINEMATICS; SEEPAGE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION; STREAMFLOW; VADOSE ZONE; WAVE EQUATION;

EID: 46049100579     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007WR006626     Document Type: Article

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