Influence of distributed flow losses and gains on the estimation of transient storage parameters from stream tracer experiments

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 396, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 277-291

  Szeftel, Pascal ^a   Dan Moore, R D ^a   Weiler, Markus ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Flow gain; Flow loss; Model structure; OTIS; Transient storage; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

FLOW GAIN; FLOW LOSS; OTIS; TRANSIENT STORAGE; UNCERTAINTY;

AQUIFERS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTS; HYDRAULICS; OPTIMIZATION; SODIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; STREAM FLOW;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; BREAKTHROUGH CURVE; HILLSLOPE; HYPORHEIC ZONE; INFLOW; NUMERICAL MODEL; OUTFLOW; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; STREAMWATER; TRANSIENT FLOW; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER EXCHANGE; WATERSHED;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA;

GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM;

EID: 78650309486     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2010.11.018     Document Type: Article

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