Resolving hyporheic and groundwater components of streambed water flux using heat as a tracer

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Bhaskar, Aditi S ^a,b   Harvey, Judson W ^b   Henry, Eric J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; FLOWING STREAMS; GROUNDWATER FLUXES; HEAT TRANSPORT MODEL; HYPORHEIC; ONE-DIMENSIONAL APPROACH; ONE-DIMENSIONAL HEAT; SHALLOW DEPTHS; STREAMBEDS; TEMPERATURE DATA; THERMAL CONDUCTION; THERMAL DATA; THERMAL DISPERSION; THERMAL METHODS; WATER FLUX;

DISPERSIONS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HEAT TRANSFER; NUMERICAL METHODS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

STREAM FLOW;

GROUNDWATER FLOW; HEAT BALANCE; HYDROGEOLOGY; HYPORHEIC ZONE; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; PERMEABILITY; STREAM BED; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THRESHOLD; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 84865974340     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR011784     Document Type: Article

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