Scaling and predicting solute transport processes in streams

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 4071-4088

  González Pinzõn, Ricardo ^a   Haggerty, Roy ^a   Dentz, Marco ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND WATER RESEARCH   (Spain)

Author keywords

meta analysis; scaling; solute transport; streams; transient storage

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL STORAGE; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; TRAVEL TIME;

BREAK THROUGH CURVE; META ANALYSIS; NORMALIZED CENTRAL MOMENT; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; SCALING; SOLUTE TRANSPORT MODEL; STREAMS; TRANSIENT STORAGE;

SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

META-ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; STREAMFLOW; STREAMWATER; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRACER; TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 84879876741     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20280     Document Type: Article

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