A hydrogeomorphic river network model predicts where and why hyporheic exchange is important in large basins

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 18, 2014, Pages 6403-6412

  Gomez Velez, Jesus D ^a   Harvey, Judson W ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

denitrification; groundwater surface water interactions; hyporheic exchange; river basin modeling; river biogeochemistry; river networks

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; DENITRIFICATION; DIGITAL STORAGE; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOLOGY; STREAM FLOW; WATERSHEDS;

GROUNDWATER - SURFACE WATER INTERACTIONS; HYPORHEIC EXCHANGE; HYPORHEIC EXCHANGE FLOW; INTRINSIC POTENTIAL; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PHYSICALLY BASED MODELING; RIVER BASINS; RIVER NETWORK;

RIVERS;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOTRANSFORMATION; DATA SET; DENITRIFICATION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTION; HYDROGEOLOGY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYPORHEIC ZONE; PREDICTION; RIVER BASIN; RIVER FLOW;

EID: 84911058916     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL061099     Document Type: Article

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