Channel water balance and exchange with subsurface flow along a mountain headwater stream in Montana, United States

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Payn, R A ^a,b   Gooseff, M N ^c   McGlynn, B L ^b   Bencala, K E ^d   Wondzell, S M ^e  

^a Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^e PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASEFLOWS; BI-DIRECTIONAL CHANNELS; CHANNEL INTERACTIONS; FATE AND TRANSPORT; HEADWATER STREAM; LOW FLOW; MASS RECOVERY; MONTANA; NET LOSS; STREAM CHANNELS; SUBSURFACE FLOW; TRACER MASS; TRACER TESTS; TRANSIENT STORAGE; UPSTREAM FLOW; WATER BALANCE;

AERODYNAMICS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULICS; LANDFORMS; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS; ROADS AND STREETS;

RIVERS;

DISCHARGE; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTION; HEADWATER; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; STREAMFLOW; STREAMWATER; SUBSURFACE FLOW; TRACER; WATER BUDGET;

MONTANA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 72149117349     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007644     Document Type: Article

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