Melt water driven stream and groundwater stage fluctuations on a glacier forefield (Dammagletscher, Switzerland)

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 823-836

  Magnusson, Jan ^a   Kobierska, Florian ^a   Huxol, Stephan ^b   Hayashi, Masaki ^c   Jonas, Tobias ^a   Kirchner, James W ^d,e  

^a WSL INSTITUTE FOR SNOW AND AVALANCHE RESEARCH SLF   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^d SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^e ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Diffusion model; Diurnal fluctuations; Glacier melt; Proglacial field; Stream groundwater interactions

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION MODEL; DIURNAL FLUCTUATIONS; GROUNDWATER FLUCTUATION; GROUNDWATER LEVEL FLUCTUATION; GROUNDWATER MONITORING WELLS; HYDRAULIC DIFFUSIVITY; PRO-GLACIAL; SUBSURFACE HYDROLOGY;

GROUNDWATER; WELLS;

RIVERS;

DIFFUSION; DIURNAL VARIATION; GLACIER RETREAT; GROUNDWATER; MELTWATER; PROGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; RADON; RIPARIAN ZONE; STREAMWATER; WATER LEVEL; WATERSHED;

DAMMA GLACIER; SWITZERLAND; URI;

EID: 84891746347     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.9633     Document Type: Article

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