Contribution of glacier meltwater to streamflow in the Wind River Range, Wyoming, inferred via a Bayesian mixing model applied to isotopic measurements

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 25, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 2228-2236

  Cable, Jessica ^a   Ogle, Kiona ^b   Williams, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Dinwoody glacier; Hierarchical Bayesian modeling; Mixing model; Stable isotopes; Tritium

Indexed keywords

ALPINE GLACIER; AUTOMATED COLLECTION; BASEFLOWS; BAYESIAN MODELING; DINWOODY GLACIER; DOMESTIC USE; FIELD CAMPAIGN; HIERARCHICAL BAYESIAN; HIERARCHICAL BAYESIAN MODELING; INTENSIVE MEASUREMENTS; ISOTOPE DATA; ISOTOPE MEASUREMENTS; ISOTOPIC MEASUREMENT; MIXING MODEL; MIXING MODELS; PRIMARY SOURCES; RIPARIAN ECOSYSTEM; RIVER SYSTEMS; SNOWMELT; STABLE ISOTOPES; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL CORRELATION; TIME-SCALES; WESTERN UNITED STATES; WIND RIVER; WYOMING;

ECOSYSTEMS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; ISOTOPES; RIVERS; TRITIUM; WATER SUPPLY;

STREAM FLOW;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; FLOW MODELING; GLACIER; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MELTWATER; SEASONAL VARIATION; SNOWPACK; SPATIAL VARIATION; STABLE ISOTOPE; STREAMFLOW; TRITIUM; VALLEY GLACIER;

ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES; WIND RIVER RANGE; WYOMING;

EID: 79959986946     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7982     Document Type: Article

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