Transit times—The link between hydrology and water quality at the catchment scale

M Hrachowitz, P Benettin… - Wiley …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
In spite of trying to understand processes in the same spatial domain, the catchment
hydrology and water quality scientific communities are relatively disconnected and so are …

[HTML][HTML] Using multi-tracer inference to move beyond single-catchment ecohydrology

BW Abbott, V Baranov, C Mendoza-Lera… - Earth-Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
Protecting or restoring aquatic ecosystems in the face of growing anthropogenic pressures
requires an understanding of hydrological and biogeochemical functioning across multiple …

A review of methods for modelling environmental tracers in groundwater: Advantages of tracer concentration simulation

C Turnadge, BD Smerdon - Journal of hydrology, 2014 - Elsevier
Mathematical models of varying complexity have been developed since the 1960s to
interpret environmental tracer concentrations in groundwater flow systems. This review …

A review of spatial Markov models for predicting pre-asymptotic and anomalous transport in porous and fractured media

T Sherman, NB Engdahl, G Porta, D Bolster - Journal of Contaminant …, 2021 - Elsevier
Heterogeneity across a broad range of scales in geologic porous media often manifests in
observations of non-Fickian or anomalous transport. While traditional anomalous transport …

Quantifying changes in age distributions and the hydrologic balance of a high-mountain watershed from climate induced variations in recharge

NB Engdahl, RM Maxwell - Journal of Hydrology, 2015 - Elsevier
Changes in the spatial distribution and flow-paths of water in a high-mountain, headwaters
watershed are evaluated using an integrated hydrologic model based on a heterogeneous …

Residence time distributions for hydrologic systems: Mechanistic foundations and steady-state analytical solutions

S Leray, NB Engdahl, A Massoudieh, E Bresciani… - Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
This review presents the physical mechanisms generating residence time distributions
(RTDs) in hydrologic systems with a focus on steady-state analytical solutions. Steady-state …

Accelerating the Lagrangian simulation of water ages on distributed, multi-GPU platforms: The importance of dynamic load balancing

C Yang, RM Maxwell, R Valent - Computers & Geosciences, 2022 - Elsevier
Water age is a fundamental descriptor of the source, storage, and mixing of water in
watersheds. The Lagrangian, particle tracking, approach is a powerful tool for physically …

Dynamic contributions of stratified groundwater to streams controls seasonal variations of streamwater transit times

J Marçais, LA Derry, L Guillaumot… - Water Resources …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Streamwater transit time distributions display a variable proportion of old waters (≥ 1 year).
We hypothesize that the corresponding long transit times result from groundwater …

Utilizing environmental tracers to reduce groundwater flow and transport model parameter uncertainties

NE Thiros, WP Gardner… - Water Resources …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Non‐uniqueness in groundwater model calibration is a primary source of uncertainty in
groundwater flow and transport predictions. In this study, we investigate the ability of …

Geomorphological controls on groundwater transit times: a synthetic analysis at the hillslope scale

A Gauvain, S Leray, J Marçais… - Water Resources …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We investigated how geomorphological structures shape Transit Time Distributions (TTDs)
in shallow aquifers. Extensive three‐dimensional simulations were performed to determine …