A field comparison of multiple techniques to quantify groundwater-surface-water interactions

Freshwater Science

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 139-160

  González Pinzón, Ricardo ^a   Ward, Adam S ^b   Hatch, Christine E ^c   Wlostowski, Adam N ^d   Singha, Kamini ^e   Gooseff, Michael N ^d   Haggerty, Roy ^f   Harvey, Judson W ^g   Cirpka, Olaf A ^h   Brock, James T ⁱ  

^a MSC01 1070   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^d Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

^e Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

^f OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

ⁱ DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed temperature sensing; DTS; Electrical resistivity; Heat as a tracer; Hydraulic head; Hyporheic exchange; Resazurin; Stream groundwater; Tracers; Transient storage

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; COST ANALYSIS; DISCHARGE; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTION; HETEROGENEITY; HYDRAULIC HEAD; HYPORHEIC ZONE; SAMPLING; STREAM; STREAM BED; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; THALWEG; TRACER; TRANSIENT FLOW; VERTICAL PROFILE;

EID: 84983459375     PISSN: 21619549     EISSN: 21619565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/679738     Document Type: Article

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