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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-18-1503-2014
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-18-1503-2014
© Author(s) 2014. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Understanding uncertainties when inferring mean transit times of water trough tracer-based lumped-parameter models in Andean tropical montane cloud forest catchments
Departamento de Recursos Hídricos y Ciencias Ambientales, Universidad de Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador
Institute for Landscape Ecology and Resources Management (ILR), Research Centre for Bio Systems, Land Use and Nutrition (IFZ), Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Giessen, Germany
D. Windhorst
Institute for Landscape Ecology and Resources Management (ILR), Research Centre for Bio Systems, Land Use and Nutrition (IFZ), Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Giessen, Germany
P. Crespo
Departamento de Recursos Hídricos y Ciencias Ambientales, Universidad de Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador
Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Universidad de Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador
H.-G. Frede
Institute for Landscape Ecology and Resources Management (ILR), Research Centre for Bio Systems, Land Use and Nutrition (IFZ), Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Giessen, Germany
J. Feyen
Departamento de Recursos Hídricos y Ciencias Ambientales, Universidad de Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador
L. Breuer
Institute for Landscape Ecology and Resources Management (ILR), Research Centre for Bio Systems, Land Use and Nutrition (IFZ), Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Giessen, Germany
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- Key controls on water transit times along a tropical precipitation gradient F. Quichimbo-Miguitama et al.
- Identification of groundwater mean transit times of precipitation and riverbank infiltration by two‐component lumped parameter models N. Le Duy et al.
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- Continuous, near-real-time observations of water stable isotope ratios during rainfall and throughfall events B. Herbstritt et al.
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- Travel times in the vadose zone: Variability in space and time M. Sprenger et al.
- Water sources and mixing in riparian wetlands revealed by tracers and geospatial analysis J. Lessels et al.
- The impact of evaporation fractionation on the inverse estimation of soil hydraulic and isotope transport parameters T. Zhou et al.
- Factors influencing stream baseflow transit times in tropical montane watersheds L. Muñoz-Villers et al.
- Constitution of a catchment virtual observatory for sharing flow and transport models outputs Z. Thomas et al.
- Time series of tritium, stable isotopes and chloride reveal short-term variations in groundwater contribution to a stream C. Duvert et al.
- The Impact of Soil Tension on Isotope Fractionation, Transport, and Interpretations of the Root Water Uptake Origin T. Zhou et al.
- Stable water isotope tracing through hydrological models for disentangling runoff generation processes at the hillslope scale D. Windhorst et al.
- The Demographics of Water: A Review of Water Ages in the Critical Zone M. Sprenger et al.
- An Analysis of the Effects of Large Wildfires on the Hydrology of Three Small Catchments in Central Chile Using Tritium-Based Measurements and Hydrological Metrics F. Balocchi et al.
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- Streamwater ages in nested, seasonally cold Canadian watersheds S. Bansah & G. Ali
- Exploring water cycle dynamics by sampling multiple stable water isotope pools in a developed landscape in Germany N. Orlowski et al.
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- Stable-isotope and solute-chemistry approaches to flow characterization in a forested tropical watershed, Luquillo Mountains, Puerto Rico M. Scholl et al.
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