Estimation of seepage rates in a losing stream by means of fiber-optic high-resolution vertical temperature profiling

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 380, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 154-164

  Vogt, Tobias ^a   Schneider, Philipp ^a   Hahn Woernle, Lisa ^a   Cirpka, Olaf A ^b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fiber optic distributed temperature sensing; River groundwater interaction; Seepage flux; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; CONDUCTIVE HEAT TRANSFER; DISTRIBUTED TEMPERATURE SENSING; DIURNAL TEMPERATURES; FLUX TIME SERIES; HARMONIC REGRESSION; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; HIGH WATER TABLE; INFILTRATION RATE; PHASE ANGLES; RIVER BED; RIVER-GROUNDWATER INTERACTIONS; SEEPAGE RATE; SEMI-INFINITE; SINUSOIDAL SURFACES; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STREAMBED SEDIMENTS; TEMPERATURE PROFILES; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; TIME POINTS; TIME SHIFTS; VERTICAL RESOLUTION; VERTICAL TEMPERATURE; WATER SEDIMENTS;

AQUIFERS; DEPTH PROFILING; FIBER OPTICS; FIBERS; HYDROGEOLOGY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; RIVERS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEEPAGE; SOIL MECHANICS; TIME SERIES;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

FIBER OPTICS; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTION; INFILTRATION; RIVER BED; SEEPAGE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STREAM; STREAM BED; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WATER TABLE;

ALSACE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; HAUT RHIN; THUR RIVER; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 71849098668     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2009.10.033     Document Type: Article

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