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 …

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 …

Bedrock geology controls on catchment storage, mixing, and release: A comparative analysis of 16 nested catchments

L Pfister, N Martínez‐Carreras, C Hissler… - Hydrological …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The bedrock controls on catchment mixing, storage, and release have been actively studied
in recent years. However, it has been difficult to find neighbouring catchments with …

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 …

Characterizing the fluxes and age distribution of soil water, plant water, and deep percolation in a model tropical ecosystem

J Evaristo, M Kim, J van Haren… - Water Resources …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Recent field observations indicate that in many forest ecosystems, plants use water that may
be isotopically distinct from soil water that ultimately contributes to streamflow. Such an …

Quantifying new water fractions and transit time distributions using ensemble hydrograph separation: theory and benchmark tests

JW Kirchner - Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2019 - hess.copernicus.org
Decades of hydrograph separation studies have estimated the proportions of recent
precipitation in streamflow using end-member mixing of chemical or isotopic tracers. Here I …

Water flux tracking with a distributed hydrological model to quantify controls on the spatio‐temporal variability of transit time distributions

F Remondi, JW Kirchner, P Burlando… - Water Resources …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Water transit times and flow pathways are crucial elements in characterizing catchment
hydrologic response. Understanding their variability in space and time sheds light on the link …

Towards hydrological connectivity in the karst hillslope critical zone: Insight from using water isotope signals

J Zhang, H Chen, Z Fu, F Wang, K Wang - Journal of Hydrology, 2023 - Elsevier
Hydrologic connectivity along the hillslope critical zone is essential for the transmission of
water, solutes, and nutrients to streams. However, the influences of critical zone structure on …

Insights into the water mean transit time in a high-elevation tropical ecosystem

GM Mosquera, C Segura, KB Vaché… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2016 - hess.copernicus.org
This study focuses on the investigation of the mean transit time (MTT) of water and its spatial
variability in a tropical high-elevation ecosystem (wet Andean páramo). The study site is the …

Time‐varying storage–water age relationships in a catchment with a mediterranean climate

NB Rodriguez, KJ McGuire… - Water Resources Research, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Recent studies on the relationships between catchment storage and water ages using
Travel Time Distributions (TTDs), Residence Time Distributions (RTDs), and StorAge …