Using oxygen-18 to study the role of preferential flow in the formation of hillslope runoff

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 252-259

  Vogel, Tomas ^a   Sanda, Martin ^a   Dusek, Jaromir ^a   Dohnal, Michal ^a   Votrubova, Jana ^a  

^a CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION-DISPERSION EQUATION; CONTINUUM MODEL; HILLSLOPE DISCHARGE; HILLSLOPES; ISOTOPE SIGNATURES; MATRIX PORE; NATURAL TRACERS; OLD WATER; OXYGEN-18; PRECIPITATION EVENTS; PREFERENTIAL FLOWS; PREFERENTIAL PATHWAYS; RICHARDS' EQUATION; SEASONAL VARIABILITY; SHALLOW SUBSURFACE; SOIL WATER; SOIL WATER DYNAMICS; SOIL WATER FLOWS; STABLE ISOTOPES; WATERBODIES;

CONTINUUM MECHANICS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; ISOTOPES; OXYGEN; PORE PRESSURE; RUNOFF; SOIL MOISTURE;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

ADVECTION; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; DISCHARGE; DISPERSION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PRECIPITATION QUALITY; PREFERENTIAL FLOW; RICHARDS EQUATION; RUNOFF; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL WATER; SUBSURFACE FLOW; TRACER;

EID: 77955456700     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2009.0066     Document Type: Article

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