Importance of vegetation, topography and flow paths for water transit times of base flow in alpine headwater catchments

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1661-1679

  Mueller, M H ^a   Weingartner, R ^b   Alewell, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMICAL PATTERNS; HEADWATER CATCHMENT; INFLUENCE OF VEGETATIONS; MEAN TRANSIT TIME; SHRUB ENCROACHMENTS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TOPOGRAPHIC INDEX; WATER STABLE ISOTOPES;

AERODYNAMICS; GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPES; LASERS; MIXING; RUNOFF; SNOW; VEGETATION;

CATCHMENTS;

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; BASEFLOW; BEDROCK; CATCHMENT; FLOW PATTERN; HEADWATER; HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY; HYDROGEOLOGY; INFILTRATION; KARSTIFICATION; PERCOLATION; SHALLOW SOIL; SHRUB; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SNOWMELT; STABLE ISOTOPE; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; VEGETATION COVER; WATER STORAGE;

ALPS; SWITZERLAND; URI; URSEREN VALLEY;

EID: 84879086503     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-17-1661-2013     Document Type: Article

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