Concurrent conservative and reactive tracer tests in a stream undergoing hyporheic exchange

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 3024-3037

  Lemke, Dennis ^a   Liao, Zijie ^a   Wöhling, Thomas ^a   Osenbrück, Karsten ^a   Cirpka, Olaf A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

hyporheic exchange; resazurin; resorufin; stream tracer experiments; travel time distributions

Indexed keywords

DATA STREAMS; DIGITAL STORAGE; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MARKOV CHAINS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS; TRACERS; TRAVEL TIME;

HYPORHEIC EXCHANGE; RESAZURIN; RESORUFIN; STREAM TRACERS; TRAVEL TIME DISTRIBUTIONS;

STREAM FLOW;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; BREAKTHROUGH CURVE; HYPORHEIC ZONE; MARKOV CHAIN; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STREAM BED; STREAMWATER; TRACER; TRAVEL TIME;

GERMANY;

EID: 84878322339     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20277     Document Type: Article

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