Statistical and numerical analyses of the influence of climate variability on aquifer water levels and groundwater temperatures: The impacts of climate change on aquifer thermal regimes

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 86-87, Issue , 2012, Pages 66-78

  Gunawardhana, Luminda Niroshana ^a   Kazama, So ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Climate change; Groundwater temperature; PIRFICT method; Sendai plain; VS2DH model

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; AQUIFER WATER; CHANGING CLIMATE; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CONTINUOUS TIME; ENERGY TRANSPORT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GROUND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; GROUND WATER RECHARGE; GROUNDWATER TEMPERATURE; GROUNDWATER TEMPERATURES; HEAT TRANSPORT; HYDROGEOLOGICAL; IMPULSE RESPONSE FUNCTIONS; MESOSCALE; MODEL PARAMETERS; MODELING METHOD; NUMERICAL CODE; OBSERVATION POINT; PIRFICT METHOD; SENDAI PLAIN; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING; SUBSURFACE LAYER; THERMAL REGIMES; TIME-PERIODS; TRANSIENT CHANGES; U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; VARIABLY SATURATED; WATER FLOWS; WATER-LEVEL SIMULATION;

AQUIFERS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAS EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSE GASES; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPEN HEARTH FURNACES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WATER LEVELS;

RECHARGING (UNDERGROUND WATERS);

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AQUIFER; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; GREENHOUSE GAS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HEAT TRANSFER; HYDROGEOLOGY; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; POROUS MEDIUM; RECHARGE; THERMAL REGIME; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WATER LEVEL; WATER TEMPERATURE;

HONSHU; JAPAN; MIYAGI; SENDAI; TOHOKU;

EID: 84858729533     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2012.02.006     Document Type: Article

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