Transport in the hydrologic response: Travel time distributions, soil moisture dynamics, and the old water paradox

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Botter, Gianluca ^a   Bertuzzo, Enrico ^b   Rinaldo, Andrea ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLUE WATER; CARRIER FLOW; CONTROL VOLUMES; HYDROGRAPHS; HYDROLOGIC RESPONSE; INPUT FLUX; MATHEMATICAL FRAMEWORKS; MIXING PROCESS; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; OLD WATER; RAINFALL PATTERNS; RUNOFF PRODUCTION; SOIL MOISTURE DYNAMICS; SOIL WATER; SOIL WATER DYNAMICS; TIME VARIANT; TRAVEL TIME; WATER FLUX; WATERSHED MODELING; WORK FOCUS; GREEN AND BLUE WATERS; HYDROLOGIC WATERSHED MODELS; TRAVEL TIME DISTRIBUTIONS;

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATOLOGY; DYNAMICS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; LANDFORMS; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; RAIN; RUNOFF; SOIL MOISTURE; UNDERWATER SOILS; WATER SUPPLY; TRAVEL TIME;

WATER TREATMENT; SOIL MOISTURE;

CATCHMENT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RUNOFF; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL WATER; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; TRAVEL TIME; UNIT HYDROGRAPH; WATER FLOW; WATERSHED;

EID: 75449100566     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009WR008371     Document Type: Article

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