Channel Representation in Physically Based Models Coupling Groundwater and Surface Water: Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them

Groundwater

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 827-836

  Käser, Daniel ^a   Graf, Tobias ^b   Cochand, Fabien ^b   Mclaren, Rob ^c   Therrien, René ^b   Brunner, Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c GOLDER ASSOCIATES LTD   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); CATCHMENTS; DIGITAL STORAGE; FLOODS; GROUNDWATER; MESH GENERATION; RIVERS; TOPOGRAPHY;

CHANNEL REPRESENTATION; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; MESH DISCRETIZATION; PHYSICALLY BASED MODELS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TOPOGRAPHIC REPRESENTATION; TOPOGRAPHIC VARIABILITY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL OVERLAND FLOWS;

SURFACE WATERS;

CATCHMENT; CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; COUPLING; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FLOODPLAIN; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTION; INTERPOLATION; OVERLAND FLOW; RIVER BANK; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STREAMWATER; SUBSURFACE FLOW; SURFACE WATER; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; WATERSHED;

GROUND WATER;

RIVER; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER FLOW;

GROUNDWATER; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RIVERS; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 84921482972     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: 17456584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gwat.12143     Document Type: Article

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