Water percolation through the deep vadose zone and groundwater recharge: Preliminary results based on a new vadose zone monitoring system

Water Resources Research

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Rimon, Yaara ^a   Dahan, Ofer ^b   Nativ, Ronit ^a   Geyer, Stefan ^c  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; DRAINAGE; GROUNDWATER FLOW; INFILTRATION; SENSORS; WETTING;

CLAY INTERBEDS; FLEXIBLE TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY SENSORS (FTDR); GROUNDWATER TABLE;

PERCOLATION (FLUIDS);

COMPUTATION THEORY; DRAINAGE; GROUNDWATER FLOW; INFILTRATION; PERCOLATION (FLUIDS); SENSORS; WETTING;

COASTAL PLAIN; DUNE; GROUNDWATER FLOW; INFILTRATION; LITHOLOGY; MONITORING SYSTEM; PERCOLATION; RECHARGE; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; URBAN AREA; VADOSE ZONE; WATER CONTENT; WATER STORAGE; WETTING FRONT;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 34347216717     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006WR004855     Document Type: Article

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