Rate and historical change of direct recharge from precipitation constrained by unsaturated zone profiles of chloride and oxygen-18 in dry river bed of North China Plain

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1291-1301

  Yuan, Ruiqiang ^a,b   Song, Xianfang ^a   Han, Dongmei ^a   Zhang, Yinghua ^a   Zhang, Liang ^a   Zhang, Bing ^a   Long, Xiting ^a   Yu, Yilei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b SHANXI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chloride mass balance; Direct recharge; North China Plain; Stable isotope profile; Unsaturated zone

Indexed keywords

CHLORIDE MASS BALANCE; DIRECT RECHARGE; NORTH CHINA PLAIN; STABLE ISOTOPES; UNSATURATED ZONE;

ARID REGIONS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ISOTOPES;

GROUNDWATER;

CHLORINE ISOTOPE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DROUGHT; EVAPORATION; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; MASS BALANCE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RECHARGE; RIVER BED; SEMIARID REGION; STABLE ISOTOPE; TIMESCALE; VADOSE ZONE;

CHINA; NORTH CHINA PLAIN;

EID: 84859642741     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.8207     Document Type: Article

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