A semianalytical three-dimensional process-based model for hyporheic nitrogen dynamics in gravel bed rivers

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Marzadri, Alessandra ^a   Tonina, Daniele ^b   Bellin, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX CONCENTRATION; DISSOLVED INORGANIC NITROGENS; FIELD EXPERIMENT; GRAVEL-BED RIVERS; HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; HYPORHEIC; HYPORHEIC ZONE; LAGRANGIAN; LOCAL DISPERSION; MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTIC; MULTI-SPECIES; NATURAL STREAMS; NITROGEN DYNAMICS; NITROUS OXIDE EMISSIONS; PARAMETERIZED; PROCESS-BASED MODELS; REACTION RATE COEFFICIENTS; REACTIVE NITROGEN; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTIONS; SEMI-ANALYTICAL; STREAM WATER; STREAMBEDS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; DYNAMICS; GRAVEL; MORPHOLOGY; NITROGEN; NITROGEN OXIDES; REACTION RATES; RIVERS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; STREAM FLOW;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; DISSOLVED INORGANIC NITROGEN; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; GRAVEL BED STREAM; HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; HYPORHEIC ZONE; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; NITROGEN CYCLE; NITROUS OXIDE; PARAMETERIZATION; REACTION KINETICS; REACTION RATE; RESIDENCE TIME; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; TRANSFORMATION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 81755166602     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR010583     Document Type: Article

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