Spatiotemporal scaling of hydrological and agrochemical export dynamics in a tile-drained Midwestern watershed

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Guan, K ^a,b   Thompson, S E ^g   Harman, C J ^c   Basu, N B ^a   Rao, P S C ^f   Sivapalan, M ^c   Packman, A I ^e   Kalita, P K ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^e Northwestern University   (United States)

^f PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WATERSHEDS; ATRAZINE CONCENTRATIONS; ATRAZINES; BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROCESS; CHEMICAL EXPORTS; CONCENTRATION-TIME; DATA SETS; DRAINAGE NETWORKS; FOURIER POWER SPECTRUM; HILLSLOPES; ILLINOIS; PHYSICOCHEMICAL FILTERS; SCALING REGIMES; SMALL SCALE; SPATIAL SCALE; SURFACE DRAINAGE; TEMPORAL SCALE; TILE DRAINS; TIME-SCALES;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CATCHMENTS; HERBICIDES; LANDFORMS; RIVERS; RUNOFF; STREAM FLOW; TIME SERIES; WATER QUALITY; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

WATERSHEDS;

AGROCHEMICAL; ATRAZINE; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CATCHMENT; CHANNEL FLOW; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATA SET; DRAINAGE; FILTER; FILTRATION; FOURIER TRANSFORM; HILLSLOPE; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; NITRATE; PHOSPHATE; RIVER DISCHARGE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STREAMFLOW; TIME SERIES; TIMESCALE; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

ILLINOIS; UNITED STATES; VERMILION RIVER;

EID: 79957501493     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR009997     Document Type: Article

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61. N. B. Basu, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52317, USA. (nandita-basu@uiowa.edu)
62. K. Guan, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA. (kguan@princeton.edu)
63. C. J. Harman, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801-2352, USA. (charman2@illinois.edu)
64. P. K. Kalita, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA. (pkalita@illinois.edu)
65. A. I. Packman, Department of Civil Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208-3109, USA. (a-packman@northwestern. edu)
66. P. S. C. Rao, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA. (pscr@purdue.edu)
67. S. E. Thompson, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC 27707, USA. (set8@duke.edu)
68. M. Sivapalan, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA. (sivapala@illinois.edu)