Small-scale permeability heterogeneity has negligible effects on nutrient cycling in streambeds

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1118-1122

  Bardini, L ^a   Boano, F ^a   Cardenas, M B ^b   Sawyer, A H ^c   Revelli, R ^a   Ridolfi, L ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

groundwater surface water interaction; Hyporheic processes; Sediment heterogeneity; Solute transport

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTION; HYPORHEIC; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATIONS; NUTRIENT DISTRIBUTIONS; NUTRIENT TRANSFORMATIONS; PERMEABILITY HETEROGENEITY; SEDIMENT HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES;

AQUIFERS; FLOW FIELDS; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; WATER QUALITY;

NUTRIENTS;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTION; HETEROGENEITY; HOMOGENEITY; HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; HYPORHEIC ZONE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PERMEABILITY; REACTIVE TRANSPORT; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; STREAM BED; TIMESCALE; WATER FLOW; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 84876904089     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50224     Document Type: Article

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