Dynamic hyporheic exchange at intermediate timescales: Testing the relative importance of evapotranspiration and flood pulses

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 318-335

  Larsen, Laurel G ^a,b   Harvey, Judson W ^b   Maglio, Morgan M ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c WISCONSIN WATER SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

effective diffusion; hyporheic zone; residence times; transient storage

Indexed keywords

EFFECTIVE DIFFUSION; FIELD DATA COLLECTION; HYPORHEIC ZONE; LOG-NORMAL FUNCTIONS; RESIDENCE TIME; RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTION (RTDS); STANDARD DISTRIBUTIONS; TRANSIENT STORAGE;

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FLOODS; RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTION; SHEAR FLOW;

STREAM FLOW;

CLIMATE FORCING; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FLOOD WAVE; FLOODPLAIN; HYPORHEIC ZONE; RESIDENCE TIME; SHEAR FLOW; TIMESCALE;

EVERGLADES; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84896696222     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013WR014195     Document Type: Article

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