Reconstruction of a daily flow record along a hydrologically complex alluvial river

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 359, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 88-104

  Rupp, David E ^a,b   Larned, Scott T ^b   Arscott, David B ^b   Schmidt, Jochen ^b  

^a DHI Water and Environment Inc   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Alluvial plain river; Ground water and surface water interaction; Streamflow; Time series reconstruction

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CURING; DROUGHT; DRYING; EFFLUENTS; FLOW OF WATER; FLOW PATTERNS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; LANDFORMS; STREAM FLOW; UNDERGROUND RESERVOIRS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ALLUVIAL PLAIN RIVER; CLIMATIC VARIATIONS; ECOLOGICAL PROCESSES; GROUND-WATER AND SURFACE-WATER INTERACTION; GROUNDWATER RECHARGING; HYDROLOGIC EFFECTS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODEL PARAMETERS; NEW ZEALAND; OBSERVATION PERIOD; RIVER CHANNELS; RIVER FLOWS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL; TEMPORAL FLOW; TIME SERIES RECONSTRUCTION; WATER EXCHANGES;

RIVERS;

ALLUVIAL PLAIN; CALIBRATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; FLOW MODELING; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTION; RECONSTRUCTION; RIVER CHANNEL; RIVER FLOW; STREAMFLOW; WATER EXCHANGE;

AUSTRALASIA; CANTERBURY [SOUTH ISLAND]; CANTERBURY PLAINS; NEW ZEALAND; SELWYN RIVER; SOUTH ISLAND;

EID: 49449098312     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2008.06.019     Document Type: Article

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