The demographics of water: A review of water ages in the critical zone

M Sprenger, C Stumpp, M Weiler… - Reviews of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The time that water takes to travel through the terrestrial hydrological cycle and the critical
zone is of great interest in Earth system sciences with broad implications for water quality …

A Cenozoic record of deep oceanic Zn isotopic composition in ferromanganese crusts

M Zhao, N Planavsky, X Wang, Y Zhang… - American Journal of …, 2023 - ajsonline.org
Water plays a critical role in erosion and sediment transport and this relationship is most
evident in the hyperarid Atacama Desert of Northern Chile, a region characterized by …

Soil water stable isotopes reveal evaporation dynamics at the soil–plant–atmosphere interface of the critical zone

M Sprenger, D Tetzlaff… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2017 - hess.copernicus.org
Understanding the influence of vegetation on water storage and flux in the upper soil is
crucial in assessing the consequences of climate and land use change. We sampled the …

Storage selection functions: A coherent framework for quantifying how catchments store and release water and solutes

A Rinaldo, P Benettin, CJ Harman… - Water Resources …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We discuss a recent theoretical approach combining catchment‐scale flow and transport
processes into a unified framework. The approach is designed to characterize the …

Transit time estimation in catchments: Recent developments and future directions

P Benettin, NB Rodriguez, M Sprenger… - Water Resources …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Water transit time is now a standard measure in catchment hydrological and ecohydrological
research. The last comprehensive review of transit time modeling approaches was …

Using SAS functions and high‐resolution isotope data to unravel travel time distributions in headwater catchments

P Benettin, C Soulsby, C Birkel… - Water Resources …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
We use high‐resolution tracer data from an experimental site to test theoretical approaches
that integrate catchment‐scale flow and transport processes in a unified framework centered …

Travel times in the vadose zone: Variability in space and time

M Sprenger, S Seeger, T Blume… - Water Resources …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Water travel times reflect hydrological processes, yet we know little about how travel times in
the unsaturated zone vary with time. Using the soil physical model HYDRUS‐1D, we derived …

Modeling chloride transport using travel time distributions at Plynlimon, Wales

P Benettin, JW Kirchner, A Rinaldo… - Water Resources …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Here we present a theoretical interpretation of high‐frequency, high‐quality tracer time
series from the Hafren catchment at Plynlimon in mid‐Wales. We make use of the …

Evaporation fractionation in a peatland drainage network affects stream water isotope composition

M Sprenger, D Tetzlaff, C Tunaley… - Water Resources …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
There is increasing interest in improving understanding of evaporation within a catchment
for an enhanced representation of dominant processes in hydrological models. We used a …

Linking water age and solute dynamics in streamflow at the H ubbard B rook E xperimental F orest, NH, USA

P Benettin, SW Bailey, JL Campbell… - Water Resources …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We combine experimental and modeling results from a headwater catchment at the Hubbard
Brook Experimental Forest (HBEF), New Hampshire, USA, to explore the link between …