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How daily groundwater table drawdown affects the diel rhythm of hyporheic exchange
Department of Ecohydrology, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Berlin, Germany
Geography Department, Humboldt-University, Berlin, Germany
Jesus D. Gomez-Velez
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
Stefan Krause
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
LEHNA-Laboratory of Ecology of Natural and Man-Impacted Hydrosystems, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France
Anders Wörman
Division of River Engineering, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Tanu Singh
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Now at Department of Numerical Mathematics, Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany
Gunnar Nützmann
Department of Ecohydrology, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Berlin, Germany
Geography Department, Humboldt-University, Berlin, Germany
Jörg Lewandowski
Department of Ecohydrology, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Berlin, Germany
Geography Department, Humboldt-University, Berlin, Germany
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With a physically based model that couples flow and heat transport in hyporheic zones, the present study provides the first insights into the dynamics of hyporheic responses to the impacts of daily groundwater withdrawal and river temperature fluctuations, allowing for a better understanding of transient hyporheic exchange processes and hence an improved pumping operational scheme.
With a physically based model that couples flow and heat transport in hyporheic zones, the...