Integrated cave drip monitoring for epikarst recharge estimation in a dry Mediterranean area, Sif Cave, Israel

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 25, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 2837-2845

  Sheffer, Nathan A ^a,b   Cohen, Moty ^a   Morin, Efrat ^a   Grodek, Tamir ^a   Gimburg, Alex ^c   Magal, Einat ^d   Gvirtzman, Haim ^a   Nied, Manuela ^e   Isele, Daniel ^e   Frumkin, Amos ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c Regional R and D Center   (Israel)

^d GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Artificial tracers; Cave drips; Epikarst; Percolation; Recharge; Vadose karst

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL RAINFALL; ARTIFICIAL TRACERS; DIRECT MEASUREMENT; DRIP RATE; DYNAMIC NATURE; EPIKARST; FLOW REGIMES; HIGH RESOLUTION; INTERMEDIATE FLOW; LAG-TIME; MATRIX; MEDITERRANEAN AREAS; PREFERENTIAL FLOWS; RAIN EVENTS; RAINFALL EVENT; RAINY SEASONS; RECHARGE; RECHARGE ESTIMATION; RECHARGE MECHANISMS; SECONDARY CRACKS; SLOW FLOW; SOIL WATER CONTENT; TRACER EXPERIMENT; VADOSE KARST; WATER FLOWS; WATER PERCOLATION;

GROUNDWATER FLOW; MONITORING; PERCOLATION (FLUIDS); RAIN; SOIL MOISTURE; SOLVENTS; TRANSDUCERS; WATER CONTENT; WATER RESOURCES;

CAVES;

CAVE; DRIP IRRIGATION; KARST; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; PERCOLATION; PREFERENTIAL FLOW; RAINFALL; RECHARGE; VADOSE ZONE; WATER FLOW;

ISRAEL;

EID: 80051582644     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.8046     Document Type: Article

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