Groundwater-surface water interactions in a large semi-arid floodplain: Implications for salinity management

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 19, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 3063-3080

  Lamontagne, Sébastien ^a   Leaney, Fred W ^a   Herczeg, Andrew L ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Environmental tracers; Floodplain; Groundwater surface water interaction; Murray River; Salinity

Indexed keywords

FLOOD CONTROL; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; RIVER DIVERSION; RIVERS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SURFACE WATERS; TRACE ELEMENTS; TRANSPIRATION; WATER LEVELS; WATER POLLUTION;

ENVIRONMENTAL TRACERS; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTIONS; MURRAY RIVER; SALINITY MANAGEMENT; SEMI-ARID FLOODPLAIN;

HYDROGEOLOGY;

FLOODPLAIN; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTION; LOW FLOW; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; SALINIZATION; SEMIARID REGION; TRACER;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; MURRAY RIVER; WORLD;

EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS CAMALDULENSIS;

EID: 27744436620     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.5832     Document Type: Article

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