Print Email Facebook Twitter Storage selection functions: A coherent framework for quantifying how catchments store and release water and solutes Title Storage selection functions: A coherent framework for quantifying how catchments store and release water and solutes Author Rinaldo, A. Benettin, P. Harman, C.J. Hrachowitz, M. McGuire, K.J. Van der Velde, Y. Bertuzzo, E. Botter, G. Faculty Aerospace Engineering Department Control & Operations Date 2015-06-30 Abstract We discuss a recent theoretical approach combining catchment-scale flow and transport processes into a unified framework. The approach is designed to characterize the hydrochemistry of hydrologic systems and to meet the challenges posed by empirical evidence. StorAge Selection functions (SAS) are defined to represent the way catchment storage supplies the outflows with water of different ages, thus regulating the chemical composition of out-fluxes. Biogeochemical processes are also reflected in the evolving residence time distribution and thus in age-selection. Here we make the case for the routine use of SAS functions and look forward to areas where further research is needed. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:bac48ae3-3973-468a-b6de-104b662ac6a4 Publisher American Geophysical Union Embargo date 2015-12-30 ISSN 0043-1397 Source https://doi.org/10.1002/2015WR017273 Source Water Resources Research, 51 (6), 2015 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c) 2015 American Geophysical Union Files PDF McGuire_2015.pdf 633.99 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:bac48ae3-3973-468a-b6de-104b662ac6a4/datastream/OBJ/view