Seasonal and spatial variation in groundwater quality along the hillslope of an agricultural research catchment (Western France)

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 831-841

  Rouxel, Matthieu ^a   Molénat, Jérôme ^a   Ruiz, Laurent ^a   Legout, Cédric ^b   Faucheux, Mickaël ^a   Gascuel Odoux, Chantal ^a  

^a UMR SAS   (France)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Chloride; Hysteresis; ORE Agrhys; Shallow groundwater; Weathered granite

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; CATCHMENTS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYSTERESIS; MIXING; RUNOFF; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; WATER QUALITY;

AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH; CHLORIDE; GROUNDWATER CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; SHALLOW GROUNDWATER; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL PATTERNS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION; WATER TABLE FLUCTUATIONS; WEATHERED GRANITES;

RECHARGING (UNDERGROUND WATERS);

AGRICULTURAL CATCHMENT; AQUIFER; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL WEAPON; CHLORIDE; GRANITE; GROUNDWATER; HILLSLOPE; MIXING; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER TABLE;

EID: 79952063998     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7862     Document Type: Article

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