Isotopic evolution of snowmelt: A new model incorporating mobile and immobile water

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Lee, Jeonghoon ^a,b   Feng, Xiahong ^a   Faiia, Anthony ^a   Posmentier, Eric ^a   Osterhuber, Randall ^c   Kirchner, James ^c,d,e  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^e ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIFORNIA; CHEMICAL TRACER TRANSPORT; DEVELOPED MODEL; IMMOBILE WATER; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC EXCHANGE; ISOTOPIC VARIATIONS; LIQUID WATER; MOBILE-IMMOBILE; NEW MODEL; PHYSICAL PROCESS; RAIN-ON-SNOW; SEASONAL SNOWPACK; SNOWMELT; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

CATCHMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SNOW; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS;

ISOTOPES;

CATCHMENT; DISCHARGE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MODEL TEST; NUMERICAL MODEL; SNOWMELT; SNOWPACK; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TRACER; WATER FLOW;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78249275247     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009WR008306     Document Type: Article

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