Automated calculation of vertical pore-water flux from field temperature time series using the VFLUX method and computer program

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 420-421, Issue , 2012, Pages 142-158

  Gordon, Ryan P ^a   Lautz, Laura K ^a   Briggs, Martin A ^a   McKenzie, Jeffrey M ^b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Distributed temperature sensing; Dynamic Harmonic Regression; Groundwater surface water interaction; Heat tracing; Hyporheic; MATLAB

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS WINDOWS; ANALYTICAL METHOD; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA SETS; DISTRIBUTED TEMPERATURE SENSING; DIURNAL SIGNALS; FIELD DATA; FIELD TEMPERATURE; FLOW PATH; FLUX CALCULATIONS; FLUX RATES; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTION; HARMONIC REGRESSION; HEAT TRACING; HEAT TRANSPORT MODEL; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH RESOLUTION SENSORS; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; HYPORHEIC; MULTIPLE SENSORS; PHASE ANGLES; PORE WATERS; RESAMPLES; STEP-BY-STEP; TEMPERATURE DATA; THERMAL DATA; THERMAL PARAMETERS; VERTICAL FLUXES; VERTICAL PROFILE; WATER FLUX;

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; GROUNDWATER; HEAT TRANSFER; MATLAB; MODELS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STREAM FLOW; SURFACE WATERS; TIME SERIES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

TEMPERATURE SENSORS;

AUTOMATION; DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTION; HEAT TRANSFER; HEATING; HYPORHEIC ZONE; NUMERICAL MODEL; POREWATER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSOR; SOFTWARE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TIME SERIES; TRACER; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VERTICAL MOVEMENT; VERTICAL PROFILE; WATER FLOW;

EID: 84856214379     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.11.053     Document Type: Article

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