Modeling watershed-scale solute transport using an integrated, process-based hydrologic model with applications to bacterial fate and transport

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 529, Issue P1, 2015, Pages 35-48

  Niu, Jie ^a,b   Phanikumar, Mantha S ^a  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial transport; Distributed hydrologic models; Groundwater surface water interactions; Particle tracking; Solute transport; Surface subsurface coupling

Indexed keywords

GROUNDWATER; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; SURFACE WATERS; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHEDS;

BACTERIAL TRANSPORT; DISTRIBUTED HYDROLOGIC MODEL; FATE AND TRANSPORT MODELING; GROUND WATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTIONS; HYDROLOGIC COMPONENTS; PARTICLE TRACKING; SOLUTE TRANSPORT MODEL; SURFACE AND SUBSURFACE FLOW;

WATER POLLUTION;

ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTION; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; LAND SURFACE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; REAL TIME; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

MICHIGAN; RED CEDAR RIVER; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); JUNIPERUS VIRGINIANA;

EID: 84937845404     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2015.07.013     Document Type: Article

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