Potential for real-time understanding of coupled hydrologic and biogeochemical processes in stream ecosystems: Future integration of telemetered data with process models for glacial meltwater streams

Water Resources Research

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 6725-6738

  McKnight, Diane M ^a   Cozzetto, Karen ^a   Cullis, James D S ^b   Gooseff, Michael N ^a   Jaros, Christopher ^a   Koch, Joshua C ^c   Lyons, W Berry ^d   Neupauer, Roseanna ^a   Wlostowski, Adam ^a  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

^b AURECON   (Australia)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

hyporheic zone; stream ecosystems

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; LANDFORMS; MONITORING; PLANTS (BOTANY); QUALITY CONTROL; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; STREAM FLOW; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHEDS;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROCESS; CONTINUOUS MONITORING; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATERIALS; HYPORHEIC ZONE; LONG-TERM ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH; PROCESS-BASED MODELS; STREAM ECOSYSTEMS; WATER QUALITY PARAMETERS;

PROCESS CONTROL;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; HYPORHEIC ZONE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REAL TIME; SOLAR RADIATION; STREAM; WATERSHED;

CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 84941993804     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015WR017618     Document Type: Article

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