Dissolved nutrient retention dynamics in river networks: A modeling investigation of transient flows and scale effects

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Ye, Sheng ^a   Covino, Timothy P ^b   Sivapalan, Murugesu ^a,c   Basu, Nandita B ^d   Li, Hong Yi ^e   Wang, Shao Wen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^d IA United States   (United States)

^e PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASEFLOWS; CHANNEL NETWORK; DISSOLVED NUTRIENTS; DOMINANT FACTOR; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; HEADWATER STREAM; HUMAN IMPACT; LANDSCAPE CHARACTERISTIC; LOW FLOW; NETWORK MODELS; NUTRIENT RETENTION; NUTRIENT TRANSPORT; PARAMETER COMBINATION; PARAMETERIZATIONS; RAINFALL VARIABILITY; REACTION PROCESS; RELATIVE EFFICIENCY; RELATIVE SIZES; RELATIVE STRENGTH; RIVER NETWORK; SCALE EFFECTS; SITE-SPECIFIC; SOLUTE TRANSPORT MODEL; SPATIAL SCALE; TRANSIENT FLOW; TRANSIENT STORAGE; UNGAUGED BASINS;

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE MODELS; DISSOLUTION; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; STREAM FLOW; TRANSITION FLOW;

NUTRIENTS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BASEFLOW; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CATCHMENT; CHANNEL FLOW; HEADWATER; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; LOW FLOW; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; PARAMETERIZATION; RAINFALL; RETENTION; RIVER CHANNEL; RIVER SYSTEM; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; TRANSIENT FLOW; WATER STORAGE;

EID: 80455128469     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR010508     Document Type: Article

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