Assessing the impact of mixing assumptions on the estimation of streamwater mean residence time

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1730-1741

  Fenicia, Fabrizio ^a   Wrede, Sebastian ^a,b   Kavetski, Dmitri ^c   Pfister, Laurent ^a   Hoffmann, Lucien ^a   Savenije, Hubert H G ^b   McDonnell, Jeffrey J ^d  

^a LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Luxembourg)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^d OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mean residence time; Mixing models; Parameter inference; Partial mixing

Indexed keywords

APRIORI; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; DESCRIPTORS; FLOW PATHWAYS; HYDROLOGICAL SYSTEM; LUMPED PARAMETER MODELS; MEAN RESIDENCE TIME; MIXING MODELS; MIXING PROCESS; NEW ZEALAND; OXYGEN-18; P-M MODEL; PARAMETER INFERENCE; SINE-WAVE; STABLE WATER ISOTOPES; STORAGE PROPERTIES; STREAM WATER; TRACER INPUT; TRACER SIMULATIONS; WATER ISOTOPE;

CATCHMENTS; DEUTERIUM; ESTIMATION; MIXING; OXYGEN; RAIN; RUNOFF; SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

CATCHMENT; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MIXING; MODELING; RESIDENCE TIME; STABLE ISOTOPE; STEADY FLOW; STREAMFLOW; STREAMWATER; TRACER;

MAIMAI; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND; WEST COAST [SOUTH ISLAND];

EID: 77954379165     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7595     Document Type: Article

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