Effects of stream discharge, alluvial depth and bar amplitude on hyporheic flow in pool-riffle channels

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Tonina, Daniele ^a   Buffington, John M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BED FORMS; BED TOPOGRAPHY; CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; CHARACTERISTIC VALUE; DARCY FLOWS; EMPIRICAL FORMULAS; HYPORHEIC; HYPORHEIC EXCHANGE; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PUMPING MODEL; RESIDENCE TIME; RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTIONS; SOLUTE EXCHANGE; STANDARD DEVIATION; STATIC AND DYNAMIC; STREAM DISCHARGE; STREAM ECOSYSTEMS; STREAMBEDS; SUBMERGED CONDITION; THREE DIMENSIONAL SIMULATIONS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL TOPOGRAPHY;

ECOSYSTEMS; LAKES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TOPOGRAPHY;

STREAM FLOW;

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; BAR; CHANNEL HYDRAULICS; CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; DARCY LAW; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; HYPORHEIC ZONE; POOL-RIFFLE SEQUENCE; PUMPING; RESIDENCE TIME; RIVER DISCHARGE; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; STREAMFLOW; WAVELENGTH;

EID: 80051679649     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR009140     Document Type: Article

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