Shape-free inference of hyporheic traveltime distributions from synthetic conservative and "smart" tracer tests in streams

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Liao, Zijie ^a   Cirpka, Olaf A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS FUNCTIONS; EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION; FUNCTIONAL FORMS; GROUNDWATER QUALITY; HYPORHEIC; HYPORHEIC EXCHANGE; HYPORHEIC ZONE; MULTIPLE-PEAK; NOISY DATA; NON-NEGATIVITY; PARAMETRIC FUNCTIONS; RIVER ECOLOGY; RIVER SYSTEMS; SMOOTHNESS PARAMETER; TRACER EXPERIMENT; TRACER TESTS; TRAVEL TIME; UNCERTAINTY BOUNDS; VIRTUAL TESTS;

GROUNDWATER; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; RIVERS; WATER QUALITY;

STREAM FLOW;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CLEANUP; DATA SET; DISSOLVED LOAD; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FILTRATION; GROUNDWATER; HYPORHEIC ZONE; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLLUTANT; REGULATORY APPROACH; RIVER SYSTEM; STREAMFLOW; TRAVEL TIME; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 79960226370     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR009927     Document Type: Article

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