Snowmelt hydrograph interpretation: Revealing watershed scale hydrologic characteristics of the Yellowstone volcanic plateau

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 383, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 209-222

  Payton Gardner, W ^a   Susong, David D ^b   Kip Solomon, D ^a   Heasler, Henry ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental tracers; Hydrograph analysis; Snowmelt hydrology; Yellowstone

Indexed keywords

DAILY DISCHARGE; DOMINANT MECHANISM; ENVIRONMENTAL TRACERS; GROUND WATER DISCHARGE; GROUND-WATER CIRCULATION; GROUNDWATER AGES; GROUNDWATER SYSTEM; HYDROGRAPH ANALYSIS; HYDROGRAPHS; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; MASS AND ENERGY TRANSPORT; MINIMUM FLOW; SHALLOW CRUST; SIGNAL INTERPRETATION; SNOWMELT; SNOWMELT HYDROLOGY; SPATIAL PATTERNS; TRITIUM CONCENTRATION; VOLCANICS; WATERSHED SCALE; YELLOWSTONES;

CHLOROFLUOROCARBONS; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOLOGY; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; SPRINGS (WATER); TRITIUM; VOLCANOES; WATER ANALYSIS; WATERSHEDS;

SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

CFC; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); COOL WATER; ENERGY BALANCE; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTION; HYDROGRAPH; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; MASS BALANCE; MASS TRANSPORT; PARAMETERIZATION; SNOWMELT; STREAMFLOW; TRITIUM; WATERSHED;

UNITED STATES; YELLOWSTONE VOLCANIC PLATEAU;

EID: 77549087162     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2009.12.037     Document Type: Article

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