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In the shortest streams, additional deflectors and pools were created upstreamof the upper station to increase mixing. Any naturally occurring background conduc-tivity signal was subtracted from the observations prior to the modelling. A typicalconductivity versus time graph is shown in Fig. Although there were 16 streams in J. In our second visit, time and weather conditions prevented us from returning to someof the streams.

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However, we do have several paired experiments spring, summer to present here and a large pool of experimental data for combined analysis. For the experiments described herein, we are concerned with solving theseequations over some stream reach length, L, and over some time interval, T, duringwhich the tracer experiment takes place.

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Thus any parameters derived are recognisedFig. Solutions to these equations are functions of spaceand time: The following boundary conditions are appropriate forthe scenario in these experiments. At the upstream boundary, the tracer concentra-tion entering the reach is specified for all time, t 0 to T; at the downstreamboundary, a zero diffusive flux is assumed which implies that solute is advectedout of the domain unhindered. For the initial conditions all concentrations areassumed to be zero at t 0. The data required to furnish the upstream boundarycondition is supplied by the observed conductivity data from the upper end of thestudy reaches.

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The model equations are discretised using a control or finite volume approach,evaluating the advection term explicitly in time using a semi-Lagrangian method Manson and Wallis and by evaluating the dispersion and transient storageterms implicitly in time using the CrankNicolson method, which apportions equalweight to both present and future values of c and s Hoffman The solutionconsists of estimates for c and s over some discretised spatial and temporal domain,i.

Note that thespatial domain is divided into nx 1 cells of size Dx and the temporal domain isdivided into nt 1 time steps of size Dt. Equation 1 is an advectiondiffusiondecay equation and represents a considerable challenge to existing numericalmethods. This method employs a conservative semi-Lagrangian algorithm that combines a control volume discretisation, the method ofcharacteristics and a flux-based interpolation scheme.

The method and its accuracyportrait is explained in detail elsewhere Manson et al. The discretised form ofthese equations is a coupled pair of equations linking ci and si to their neighbouringcells for the whole computational domain at the future time level, n 1,aicn1i1 bicn1i gicn1i1 disn1i ei 3 bsi cn1i dsi sn1i esi 4 in which ai; bi; gi; di; ei; bsi ; dsi ; esi are coefficients related to both physical and numer-ical parameters.

Since there are nx 1 cells, the resulting 2 nx 1 equations areassembled into a matrix and solved to give cn1i and sn1i for each computationalcell. Note that 4 may be used to eliminate the transient storage term from 3 before it is solved. The model prediction for concentration versus time at the downstream end of theexperimental reach was fitted to the observed data at the lower end of the studyreach, which had been collected at nt points in time.

A fitting parameter may bedefined as: Note that lateral inflow q wasobtained directly from solute dilution calculations and was therefore not adjusted asa fitting parameter. Figure 2 shows a plot of the transient storage exchange parameter k1 versus flowvelocity. We might expect that these parameters would correlate with each other; atlarger velocities the shear gradient across the boundary layer will be larger withconsequently larger mass transport.

Admittedly the flow field in these small streamsis much more complicated than the simple shear flow for which this exchangemechanism is envisaged and there is considerable scatter; however, we observe afairly strong correlation R 0. Note that these values of k1 correspondwith a range of transient storage residence times ranging from about 2 to 22 min.

These values resonate with field observations. Once again there is somescatter, but these percentages seem reasonable when we consider in situ observa-tions. If it were not included in the regression, thecorrelation would likely become stronger and the exponential decline steeper. Table 1 summarises our expectations and observations. Generally, streamswith large swathes of submerged and emergent aquatic vascular plants had lesstransient storage at the beginning of the spring April than in late summer August , see Table 1 and Fig.



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