Hydrogeologic characteristics of groundwater aquifers in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 62, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1723-1732

  Pandey, Vishnu Prasad ^a   Kazama, Futaba ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

Author keywords

GIS; Groundwater management; Hydrogeology; Kathmandu Valley; Specific capacity; Transmissivity

Indexed keywords

GIS; GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT; KATHMANDU VALLEY; SPECIFIC CAPACITY; TRANSMISSIVITY;

AQUIFERS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROGEOLOGY; LANDFORMS; WATER MANAGEMENT;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

AQUIFER; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EQUATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; GIS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROGEOLOGY; LINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TRANSMISSIVITY; WATER MANAGEMENT;

KATHMANDU VALLEY; NEPAL;

EID: 79953164311     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-010-0667-3     Document Type: Article

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