HR: 14:00h
AN: H13K-02 INVITED     [Abstracts]
TI: Energy Budgets and Stream and River Temperatures in European Rivers
AU: * Webb, B
EM: B.W.Webb@exeter.ac.uk
AF: University of Exeter, School of Geography, Archaeology and Earth Resources, Exeter University, Amory Building, Rennes Drive, Exeter, EX4 4RJ United Kingdom
AB: This paper reviews existing knowledge of stream and river budgets and water column and hyporheic temperatures, with special reference to European watercourses. Results from detailed field monitoring of the major heat budget components are presented for a number contrasting streams and rivers, including forested and open channels and groundwater and surface water reaches in Britain, and especially in the South-West of England. These highlight significant spatial variation in the nature of the energy budget and emphasise the considerable variability in the magnitude and relative importance of heat flux components over daily to seasonal timescales. The findings of the field studies suggest that while temperature behaviour in the water column and stream bed can be broadly accounted for through an understanding of energy budgets, more research is needed to elucidate fully the role of some processes, including advective heat transport associated with surface-subsurface exchanges.
DE: 1800 HYDROLOGY
DE: 1871 Surface water quality
DE: 1878 Water/energy interactions (0495)
SC: Hydrology [H]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005