Modeling and inverting reactive stream tracers undergoing two-site sorption and decay in the hyporheic zone

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 3406-3422

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

hyporheic exchange; resazurin; shape free inference; stream tracer experiments; stream tracer modeling; travel time distributions

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; METABOLISM; RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTION; SORPTION; STREAM FLOW; TRACERS; TRAVEL TIME;

HYPORHEIC EXCHANGE; RESAZURIN; SHAPE-FREE INFERENCE; STREAM TRACERS; TRAVEL TIME DISTRIBUTIONS;

RIVERS;

HYPORHEIC ZONE; MODELING; PARAMETERIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SORPTION; STREAM; STREAMFLOW; TRACER;

GERMANY;

EID: 84878977459     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20276     Document Type: Article

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