Rainfall infiltration-derived submarine groundwater discharge from multi-layered aquifer system terminating at the coastline

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 985-995

  Guo, Qiaona ^a   Li, Hailong ^b   Zhou, Zhifang ^a   Huang, Yong ^a  

^a HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Analytical solution; Coastal multi layered aquifer system; Fresh submarine groundwater discharge; Leakage; Numerical solution; Rainfall infiltration

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; FRESH SUBMARINE GROUNDWATER DISCHARGE; MULTI-LAYERED AQUIFER; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; RAINFALL INFILTRATION;

HYDROGEOLOGY; LEAKAGE (FLUID);

AQUIFERS;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; BOUSSINESQ EQUATION; COASTAL AQUIFER; DISCHARGE; GROUNDWATER; INFILTRATION; NUMERICAL METHOD; RAINFALL; UNCONFINED AQUIFER;

EID: 84858861911     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.8188     Document Type: Article

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