Simulating the effects of geologic heterogeneity and transient boundary conditions on streambed temperatures - Implications for temperature-based water flux calculations

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1309-1319

  Schornberg, Christina ^a,b   Schmidt, Christian ^a   Kalbus, Edda ^a   Fleckenstein, Jan H ^b  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Geologic heterogeneity; Groundwater surface water interaction; Heat transport modelling; Streambed temperatures

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EQUATIONS; ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; CONSTANT TEMPERATURE; EXCHANGE FLUXES; GEOLOGIC HETEROGENEITY; GEOLOGIC UNITS; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTION; HEAT TRANSPORT; HETEROGENEOUS SEDIMENTS; HIGH CONTRAST; NUMERICAL MODELS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL HEAT; SIMULATION STUDIES; STEADY-STATE CONDITION; STREAMBEDS; STRUCTURAL ARRANGEMENT; SURFACE WATER TEMPERATURE; TRANSIENT TEMPERATURE; VERTICAL FLOWS; WATER EXCHANGE; WATER FLUX;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERRORS; GROUNDWATER; HEAT TRANSFER; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

SURFACE WATERS;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; DARCY LAW; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTION; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SIMULATION; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM; STREAM BED; SURFACE WATER; WATER TEMPERATURE;

EID: 78649782929     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2010.04.007     Document Type: Article

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