Stream nitrate uptake and transient storage over a gradient of geomorphic complexity, north-central Colorado, USA

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 26, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 3241-3252

  Baker, Daniel W ^a   Bledsoe, Brian P ^b   Price, Jennifer Mueller ^c  

^a The Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^c ROSE HULMAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Eco hydrology; Fluvial geomorphology; Land use; Nitrogen spiralling; Solute transport modelling; Transient storage

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL STREAMS; BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROCESS; CHANNEL CONDITIONS; CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; COLORADO , USA; COMPLEX RESPONSE; ECO-HYDROLOGY; FLOW DEPTH; FLOW REGIMES; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; NITRATE UPTAKE; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PLANFORM; SOLUTE TRANSPORT MODELLING; TRACER INJECTIONS; TRANSIENT STORAGE; TWO-STREAM; URBAN STREAM;

AGRICULTURE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BROMINE COMPOUNDS; LAND USE;

NITRATES;

AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BREAKTHROUGH CURVE; BROMIDE; CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL RESPONSE; NITRATE; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; STREAMWATER; TRACER;

COLORADO; UNITED STATES;

BOS;

EID: 84859429830     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.8385     Document Type: Article

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