Assessing hyporheic exchange and associated travel times by hydraulic, chemical, and isotopic monitoring at the Steinlach Test Site, Germany

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 359-372

  Osenbrück, Karsten ^a   Wöhling, Thomas ^a   Lemke, Dennis ^a,b   Rohrbach, Nina ^a,b   Schwientek, Marc ^a   Leven, Carsten ^b   Castillo Alvarez, Cristina ^a   Taubald, Heinrich ^b   Cirpka, Olaf A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Deconvolution; Hyporheic zone; Monitoring; Stream groundwater interaction; Travel time distribution

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; CONTINUOUS TIME SYSTEMS; DATA STREAMS; DECONVOLUTION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; MONITORING; RIVERS; STREAM FLOW; WATER LEVELS;

BIOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; GROUNDWATER INTERACTION; HYPORHEIC EXCHANGE; HYPORHEIC ZONE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; TRAVEL TIME DISTRIBUTIONS; WATER LEVEL DYNAMICS;

TRAVEL TIME;

AQUIFER; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; DAMPING; DISCHARGE; GRAVEL; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYPORHEIC ZONE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; STREAM; WATER LEVEL;

GERMANY;

EID: 84876889843     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-012-2155-4     Document Type: Article

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