Using heat as a tracer to estimate spatially distributed mean residence times in the hyporheic zone of a riffle-pool sequence

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 3697-3711

  Naranjo, Ramon C ^a,b   Pohll, Greg ^a   Niswonger, Richard G ^b   Stone, Mark ^c   McKay, Alan ^a  

^a DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c MSC01 1070   (United States)

Author keywords

heat as a tracer; hyporheic zone; residence time; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STREAM FLOW; TRACERS;

BIOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; GENERALIZED LIKELIHOOD UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATION; HYPORHEIC ZONE; RESIDENCE TIME; SOLUTE TRANSPORT MODEL; STEADY-STATE FLOW CONDITIONS; TEMPERATURE AND PRESSURES; UNCERTAINTY;

RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTION;

ESTIMATION METHOD; HEAT BALANCE; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYPORHEIC ZONE; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PIEZOMETER; POROSITY; PRESSURE EFFECT; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 84881041209     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20306     Document Type: Article

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