Modelling catchment-scale water storage dynamics: Reconciling dynamic storage with tracer-inferred passive storage

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 25, Issue 25, 2011, Pages 3924-3936

  Birkel, Christian ^a   Soulsby, Chris ^a   Tetzlaff, Doerthe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Catchment storage; Dynamic storage; Models; Passive storage; Stable isotopes; Tracers

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL MODEL; DYNAMIC STORAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; INPUT-OUTPUT; MODEL ASSUMPTIONS; MODEL UNCERTAINTIES; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELS; SCALING RELATIONSHIPS; SEASONAL STORAGE; SENSITIVITY FUNCTIONS; STABLE ISOTOPES; UPLAND CATCHMENT; WATER BALANCE; WATER STORAGE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYNAMIC MODELS; ISOTOPES; MODELS; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS; RAIN; RUNOFF; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CATCHMENTS;

CATCHMENT; DISCHARGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; STABLE ISOTOPE; TRACER; WATER BUDGET; WATER STORAGE;

EID: 82655181940     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.8201     Document Type: Article

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