How does rapidly changing discharge during storm events affect transient storage and channel water balance in a headwater mountain stream?

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 5473-5486

  Ward, Adam S ^a   Gooseff, Michael N ^b   Voltz, Thomas J ^c   Fitzgerald, Michael ^d   Singha, Kamini ^e   Zarnetske, Jay P ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES DRESDEN   (Germany)

^d NATIONAL ECOLOGICAL OBSERVATORY NETWORK   (United States)

^e Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

^f MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

channel water balance; hyporheic; modeling; solute transport; storm; transient storage

Indexed keywords

FLOORS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; LANDFORMS; MODELS; MORPHOLOGY; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; STORMS; STREAM FLOW; TRACERS;

BREAK THROUGH CURVE; CONFIDENCE LEVELS; HYDRAULIC GRADIENTS; HYPORHEIC; SUBSURFACE TRANSPORT; SURFACE WATER AND GROUNDWATERS; TRANSIENT STORAGE; WATER BALANCE;

RIVERS;

BASEFLOW; BREAKTHROUGH CURVE; DISCHARGE; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTION; HEADWATER; HILLSLOPE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYPORHEIC ZONE; MOUNTAIN STREAM; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; STORM SURGE; STREAM CHANNEL; SUBSURFACE FLOW; TRACER; VALLEY; WATER BUDGET;

EID: 84883506036     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20434     Document Type: Article

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