Investigating riparian groundwater flow close to a losing river using diurnal temperature oscillations at high vertical resolution

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 473-487

  Vogt, T ^a,c   Schirmer, M ^a   Cirpka, O A ^b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c NAGRA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED TEMPERATURE SENSING; DIURNAL TEMPERATURES; EXCHANGE FLUXES; EXCHANGE RATES; FIELD DATA; FIELD INVESTIGATION; HARMONIC REGRESSION; HEAT TRANSPORT; HEAT TRANSPORT MODEL; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH VERTICAL RESOLUTION; HYPORHEIC; NATURAL TRACERS; PHASE ANGLES; POTENTIAL ERRORS; RIPARIAN GROUNDWATER; RIPARIAN ZONES; RIVER SECTION; SHALLOW GROUNDWATER; SIMPLIFYING ASSUMPTIONS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION; SWITZERLAND; TEMPORAL VARIATION; THERMAL EXCHANGE; THERMAL PROCESS; TIME SHIFTS; UNIFORM FLOW; UNSATURATED ZONE; VERTICAL TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

FLOW VELOCITY; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HEAT TRANSFER; INFILTRATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; WATER FILTRATION;

RIVERS;

AMPLITUDE; DIURNAL VARIATION; DRINKING WATER; ERROR ANALYSIS; FLOW PATTERN; FLOW VELOCITY; GROUNDWATER FLOW; INFILTRATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OSCILLATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESOLUTION; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; RIPARIAN ZONE; RIVER BED; RIVER WATER; SHALLOW WATER; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VADOSE ZONE; VELOCITY;

SWITZERLAND; THUR RIVER [SWITZERLAND];

EID: 84857414969     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-16-473-2012     Document Type: Article

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