Revealing the spatial variability of water fluxes at the groundwater-surface water interface

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 3978-3992

  Binley, Andrew ^a   Ullah, Sami ^b   Heathwaite, A Louise ^a   Heppell, Catherine ^c   Byrne, Patrick ^a,d   Lansdown, Katrina ^c,e   Trimmer, Mark ^e   Zhang, Hao ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

groundwater surface water; hydrogeophysics; spatial variability

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; CATCHMENTS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; FLOW OF WATER; GROUNDWATER; POTASSIUM ALLOYS; RIVERS; RUNOFF; URANIUM ALLOYS; WATER MANAGEMENT;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROCESS; CHLORIDE CONCENTRATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYING; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERFACES; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATERS; HYDROGEOPHYSICS; SPATIAL VARIABILITY;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CATCHMENT; CHLORIDE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTION; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYPORHEIC ZONE; NITRATE; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; POREWATER; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RIVER BED; SPATIAL VARIATION; SUBSURFACE FLOW; WATER FLOW; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE;

CUMBRIA; ENGLAND; LEITH RIVER; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84879858993     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20214     Document Type: Article

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