Transient storage and downstream solute transport in nested stream reaches affected by beaver dams

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 23, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 2438-2449

  Jin, Li ^a,c   Siegel, Donald I ^a   Lautz, Laura K ^a   Otz, Martin H ^b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Nano Trace Technologies   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Beaver dams; Tracer test; Transient storage; Travel time

Indexed keywords

BEAVER DAMS; CROSS SECTIONAL AREA; DEAD ZONES; DISPERSION COEFFICIENT; DISPERSION PROCESS; HYDRODYNAMIC DISPERSIONS; HYDROLOGIC CYCLES; HYPORHEIC ZONE; IN-CHANNELS; KEY ELEMENTS; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; MOVING WATER; ONE-DIMENSIONAL; PEAK CONCENTRATIONS; POND SIZE; RESIDENCE TIME; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; TIME PARAMETER; TRACER TEST; TRACER TESTS; TRANSIENT STORAGE; TRAVEL TIME; WATER STORAGE; WYOMING ,USA;

BOLTZMANN EQUATION; DAMS; DISPERSIONS; FLUID DYNAMICS; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOLOGY; LANDFORMS; LINEAR REGRESSION; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; STREAM FLOW; TESTING;

RIVERS;

CHANNEL HYDRAULICS; CROSS SECTION; DAM; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; HYPORHEIC ZONE; LINEARITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; STREAMFLOW; TRACER; TRANSIENT FLOW; TRAVEL TIME; WATER STORAGE;

CHERRY CREEK RESERVOIR; COLORADO; NORTH AMERICA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 68749087414     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7359     Document Type: Article

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