Effect of rainfall intensity and distribution on groundwater level fluctuations

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 332, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 348-360

  Jan, Chyan Deng ^a   Chen, Tsung Hsien ^a   Lo, Wei Cheng ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Effective accumulated rainfall amount; Exponential decay weighting method; Groundwater level increment; Present and antecedent rainfall

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; GROUNDWATER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAIN GAGES;

EFFECTIVE ACCUMULATED RAINFALL AMOUNT; EXPONENTIAL-DECAY WEIGHTING METHOD; GROUNDWATER LEVEL INCREMENT; MATHEMATICAL EQUATIONS; PRESENT AND ANTECEDENT RAINFALL;

RAIN;

DATA REDUCTION; GROUNDWATER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAIN; RAIN GAGES;

GROUNDWATER; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; WATER LEVEL;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

EID: 33845699519     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2006.07.010     Document Type: Article

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