Riparian soil temperature modification of the relationship between flow and dissolved organic carbon concentration in a boreal stream

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Winterdahl, Mattias ^a   Futter, Martyn ^a   Köhler, Stephan ^a   Laudon, Hjalmar ^a   Seibert, Jan ^b,c   Bishop, Kevin ^a,c  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE ERROR; BOREAL STREAM; DAILY DISCHARGE; DEPTH PROFILE; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; FLOW PATHWAYS; HEADWATER STREAM; INTEGRATION MODELS; ON DYNAMICS; RIPARIAN SOIL; SEASONAL PATTERNS; SOIL CONCENTRATIONS; SOIL TEMPERATURE; STREAM WATER; STREAMWATER CHEMISTRY; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY;

GEOLOGIC MODELS; HYDROCHEMISTRY; ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL SURVEYS; STREAM FLOW; TEMPERATURE;

RIVERS;

BOREAL FOREST; CALIBRATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CORRELATION; DISCHARGE; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; ERROR ANALYSIS; HEADWATER; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); RIPARIAN VEGETATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEMPERATURE; STREAMFLOW; SULFATE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WATER CHEMISTRY;

EID: 80052318078     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR010235     Document Type: Article

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