Concepts

Water movement and chemistry dynamics that maintain fen ecosystems and support specialized plant communities

Water-related environmental factors including humidity, rainfall, snow cover, and soil moisture that affect disease transmission and host physiology

The maximum rate at which water can enter soil under specified conditions

Water storage transfer between seasons, particularly winter snow storage contributing to summer flows

Lateral movement of snowmelt downgradient through soil zone toward topographic convergent zones to form streams

More young water released from storage during wet periods than during dry periods

Snowpack condition when snow temperature is uniform at 0°C and entering net seasonal melting cycle

Models that describe the relationship between environmental tracer concentrations and residence time distributions using convolution integrals

Creation of low elevation corridors through mountain ridges by water erosion

Hydrologic system responses where combined effects of multiple perturbations differ from the sum of individual effects

Diffusion-limited organic-rich deposits that result from river meanders with fine-grained nature producing near-zero rate of water flow

Volume of void space in a column, used to normalize flow-through time in column experiments

Movement of fluids through porous rocks after initial sediment deposition that can alter magnetic mineralogy and create secondary magnetic fabrics

Single-well tracer test involving injection of tracer solution followed by extraction to evaluate aquifer transport and reaction processes

Estimates of precipitation amount derived from radar and other observational data

Infrastructure components like culverts, ditches, and berms that manage water flow along roads

Rate of water movement through tree xylem measured using thermal dissipation methods

Variations in water quality concentrations due to observed seasonal streamflow fluctuations, with smaller concentrations noted through the 1980-81 period for sampling sites downstream from mine draina...

The concept that sediments act as integrators providing information that complements analyzed trace metal concentrations in water samples collected at or near the same stream site, representing compos...

Spatial fragmentation of snow cover, referring to patchiness conditions

Remote sensing technique to identify and quantify spatial extent of snow cover using satellite imagery

Depth of mobile regolith layer from land surface to bedrock contact, controlling water, carbon, and nutrient dynamics

Water potential gradient system where water potential values are highest in soil, lowest in atmosphere, and intermediate in the plant, driving water movement upward