Effects of benthic and hyporheic reactive transport on breakthrough curves

Freshwater Science

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 301-315

  Aubeneau, Antoine F ^a,c   Drummond, Jennifer D ^a   Schumer, Rina ^b   Bolster, Diogo ^c   Tank, Jennifer L ^c   Packman, Aaron I ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeochemistry; Hyporheic exchange; Modeling

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYPORHEIC ZONE; ISOTHERM; REACTIVE TRANSPORT; RESIDENCE TIME; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; SORPTION; STOCHASTICITY; TIMESCALE; TRACER;

EID: 84983438566     PISSN: 21619549     EISSN: 21619565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/680037     Document Type: Article

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