Testing mixing models of old and young groundwater in a tropical lowland rain forest with environmental tracers

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Solomon, D Kip ^a   Genereux, David P ^b   Plummer, L Niel ^c   Busenberg, Eurybiades ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c 432 National Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY MIXING; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; COSTA RICA; ENVIRONMENTAL TRACERS; INTERBASIN GROUNDWATER FLOWS; MEAN VALUES; MIXING MODELS; PISTON FLOW; RAIN FORESTS; THREE MODELS; TRANSIENT TRACERS; EXPONENTIAL MIXING; WATER BOUNDARIES; ZERO CONCENTRATION;

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; FORESTRY; GROUNDWATER FLOW; MIXING; RAIN; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE; TRAVEL TIME; GROUNDWATER; PISTONS;

GROUNDWATER; MIXING;

DATING METHOD; FRACTIONATION; GROUNDWATER FLOW; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINFOREST; RECHARGE; SURFACE WATER; TRAVEL TIME; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FOREST ECOSYSTEM; MANTLE; SUBSURFACE FLOW;

GROUND WATER; MEASUREMENT; MIXING; RAIN; SALINITY; FLOW; MODELS;

COSTA RICA;

EID: 80051875503     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009WR008341     Document Type: Article

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