Assessment of groundwater storage depletion by overexploitation using simple indicators in an irrigated closed aquifer basin in Iran

Agricultural Water Management

Volumn 97, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1876-1886

  Van Camp, M ^a   Radfar, M ^a,b   Walraevens, K ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b SHAHREKORD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Indicator; Irrigation; Modeling; Overexploitation

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTION RATES; AQUIFER RECHARGE; AQUIFER STORAGE; AQUIFER SYSTEMS; ARID AND SEMI-ARID REGIONS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CROP GROWTH; GROUNDWATER ABSTRACTION; GROUNDWATER FLOW MODEL; GROUNDWATER STORAGE; INDICATOR; LOWER CORRELATION; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; MODELING; MOISTURE BALANCE; OVEREXPLOITATION; PIEZOMETRIC LEVELS; RAINFALL RECHARGE; WATER DEMAND;

ABSTRACTING; AQUIFERS; ARID REGIONS; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; IRRIGATION; METEOROLOGY; RAIN; SOIL MOISTURE; TIME SERIES; WATER CONSERVATION;

RECHARGING (UNDERGROUND WATERS);

AQUIFER; CLIMATIC REGION; CULTIVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; EXPLOITATION; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROWTH RATE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; IRRIGATION; METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PIEZOMETER; RAINFALL; RECHARGE; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE WATER; TIME SERIES; WATER DEMAND; WATER STORAGE; WATER SUPPLY;

IRAN;

EID: 77955773833     PISSN: 03783774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2010.02.006     Document Type: Article

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