Seasonal groundwater storage anomaly and vadose zone soil moisture as indicators of precipitation recharge in the piedmont region of Taihang Mountain, North China Plain

Hydrology Research

Volumn 39, Issue 5-6, 2008, Pages 479-495

  Han, Shumin ^a   Yang, Yonghui ^a   Lei, Yuping ^a   Tang, Changyuan ^b   Moiwo, Juana P ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Agricultural water use; Groundwater anomaly; Precipitation recharge; Soil moisture; Soil water deficit

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CROPS; HYDROGEOLOGY; LANDFORMS; MOISTURE; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; PERMITTIVITY; PLANTS (BOTANY); SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; UNDERGROUND RESERVOIRS; UNDERWATER SOILS; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER SUPPLY;

AGRICULTURAL WATER USE; ANNUAL PRECIPITATIONS; FIELD CAPACITIES; FIELD CROPS; GROUND WATER RECHARGES; GROUNDWATER ANOMALY; GROUNDWATER STORAGES; LAND AREAS; NORTH CHINA PLAINS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDES; PRECIPITATION RECHARGE; RETURN PERIODS; SOIL CORES; SOIL MOISTURE CONTENTS; SOIL WATER DEFICIT; VADOSE ZONE SOILS;

GROUNDWATER;

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCE; PIEDMONT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RECHARGE; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL WATER; VADOSE ZONE; WATER USE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIHANG MOUNTAINS;

EID: 59649086704     PISSN: 00291277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/nh.2008.117     Document Type: Article

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