Reducing monitoring gaps at the aquifer-river interface by modelling groundwater-surface water exchange flow patterns

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 25, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 3547-3562

  Munz, Matthias ^a   Krause, Stefan ^b   Tecklenburg, Christina ^a   Binley, Andrew ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aquifer river interface; Groundwater surface water exchange; Hyporheic zone; MODFLOW

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER-RIVER INTERFACE; EXCHANGE FLOW; EXCHANGE FLOW RATE; EXCHANGE FLUXES; FLOW CONDITION; GROUND WATER RECHARGE; GROUNDWATER MODELS; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER EXCHANGE; HYDRAULIC GRADIENTS; HYDRAULIC HEADS; HYPORHEIC EXCHANGE FLOW; HYPORHEIC ZONE; MODFLOW; OBSERVATION PERIOD; PEAK FLOWS; POTENTIAL SURFACES; PROCESS UNDERSTANDING; SIMULATION RESULT; SPATIAL PATTERNS; STREAMBED SEDIMENTS; STREAMBEDS; TEMPORAL DYNAMICS; TRANSIENT SIMULATION; UP-WELLING; WATER EXCHANGE; WATER HEADS; WATER INFILTRATION;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; AQUIFERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW PATTERNS; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDRAULICS; RIVERS; SEEPAGE; SOIL MECHANICS; STREAM FLOW;

RECHARGING (UNDERGROUND WATERS);

AQUIFER; FLOW MODELING; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTION; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDRAULIC HEAD; HYPORHEIC ZONE; INFILTRATION; PARAMETERIZATION; PEAK FLOW; RECHARGE;

CUMBRIA; ENGLAND; LEITH RIVER; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 80054871711     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.8080     Document Type: Article

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