Abstract:The transit time (TT) of streamflow encapsulates information about how
catchments store and release water and solutes of different ages. The
young water fraction (Fyw), the fraction of streamflow that is younger
than a certain age (normally 2–3 months), has been increasingly used as
an alternative metric to the commonly used mean TT (mTT). In the
commonly used (‘traditional’) procedure presented by Kirchner (2016),
the age threshold (τyw) of Fyw separating young from old water is not
pre-defined and differs fr… Show more
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