Impact of artificial subsurface drainage on groundwater travel times and baseflow discharge in an agricultural watershed, Iowa (USA)

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 26, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 3092-3100

  Schilling, Keith E ^a   Jindal, Priyanka ^b   Basu, Nandita B ^c   Helmers, Matthew J ^d  

^a Iowa Geological and Water Survey   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c IA United States   (United States)

^d Iowa State University of Science and Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural hydrology; Artificial drainage; Baseflow; Drainage tiles; Travel times

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WATERSHEDS; BASEFLOWS; DRAINAGE DENSITY; GROUND-WATER HYDROLOGY; GROUNDWATER FLOW MODEL; SUBSURFACE DRAINAGES; TILE DEPTH; TILE DRAINAGE; TILE DRAINS; TRANSPORT MECHANISM; TRAVEL TIMES; UPPER BOUND; WATERSHED CHARACTERISTICS; WATERSHED SCALE;

AQUIFERS; CULTIVATION; DRAINAGE; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; LANDFORMS; NATURAL WATER GEOCHEMISTRY; WATERSHEDS;

TRAVEL TIME;

BASEFLOW; DENSITY; DRAINAGE NETWORK; FLOW MODELING; GROUNDWATER FLOW; NITRATE; TRAVEL TIME; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; WATERSHED;

IOWA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84866165936     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.8337     Document Type: Article

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