Consequences of mixing assumptions for time-variable travel time distributions

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 29, Issue 16, 2015, Pages 3460-3474

  van der Velde, Ype ^a   Heidbüchel, Ingo ^b   Lyon, Steve W ^c   Nyberg, Lars ^d   Rodhe, Allan ^e   Bishop, Kevin ^e,f   Troch, Peter A ^g  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d KARLSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Catchment hydrology; Connectivity; Mixing assumptions; Travel time distributions

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; MIXING; RIVERS; RUNOFF; WATER SUPPLY;

CATCHMENT HYDROLOGY; COMPLETELY-MIXED; CONNECTIVITY; CURRENT GENERATION; STREAM DISCHARGE; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TRAVEL TIME DISTRIBUTIONS; WATER STORAGE;

TRAVEL TIME;

CATCHMENT; CONNECTIVITY; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; MIXING; STREAMFLOW; TRAVEL TIME; WATER STORAGE;

ARIZONA; SWEDEN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84932636711     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.10372     Document Type: Article

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