Estimation of dissolved organic carbon contribution from hillslope soils to a headwater stream

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Mei, Yi ^a,b   Hornberger, George M ^a,b   Kaplan, Louis A ^c   Newbold, J Denis ^c   Aufdenkampe, Anthony K ^c  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADABLE DOCS; CALIBRATED MODEL; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; DISTRIBUTED MODELS; DUAL-PERMEABILITY; HEADWATER STREAM; HILLSLOPE SOIL; MACROPORES; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL; ORGANIC-RICH SOIL; PENNSYLVANIA; PHYSICALLY BASED; RIPARIAN ZONES; SCALING-UP; TEMPORAL DYNAMICS; TRANSPORT OF HEAT; VADOSE ZONE; WATER FLOWS; WATER TABLES;

BROMINE COMPOUNDS; EXPERIMENTS; GROUNDWATER; LANDFORMS; LYSIMETERS; SOIL SURVEYS; SOILS; STREAM FLOW; WATERSHEDS;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

BIODEGRADATION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTION; HEADWATER; HILLSLOPE; LYSIMETER; PERMEABILITY; RIPARIAN ZONE; STREAMWATER; VADOSE ZONE; WATER FLOW;

PENNSYLVANIA; UNITED STATES; WHITE CLAY CREEK;

EID: 84866678033     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR010815     Document Type: Article

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