Groundwater Dynamics of Fongafale Islet, Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu

Ground Water

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 639-644

  Nakada, Satoshi ^a,b   Umezawa, Yu ^c   Taniguchi, Makoto ^b   Yamano, Hiroya ^d  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITY AND NATURE   (Japan)

^c NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRACKISH WATER; BULK RESISTIVITY; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; GEOELECTRIC; GROUND-WATER QUALITIES; GROUNDWATER DYNAMICS; HIGH PERMEABILITY; HOLOCENES; HYDROLOGIC CONTROLS; IN-PHASE; LOW RESISTIVITY; SEA LEVEL RISE; SPATIOTEMPORAL DISTRIBUTIONS; THIN SHEET; TIDAL FORCING; TOPOGRAPHIC FEATURES;

AQUIFERS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; TIDES; WATER QUALITY; WETLANDS;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

GROUND WATER;

AQUIFER; ATOLL; BRACKISH WATER; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CORAL; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; FRESHWATER; GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY; GROUNDWATER RESOURCE; HOLOCENE; HYDRODYNAMICS; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; RECLAIMED LAND; SALINITY; SALINIZATION; SEMIDIURNAL TIDE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SWAMP; TIDE; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; VULNERABILITY;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLOCASIA; FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); SALINITY; WATER FLOW; WETLAND;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COLOCASIA; GROUNDWATER; ISLANDS; MICRONESIA; SALINITY; WATER MOVEMENTS; WETLANDS;

FUNAFUTI; TUVALU;

ANTHOZOA; COLOCASIA ESCULENTA;

EID: 84863325694     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: 17456584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2011.00874.x     Document Type: Article

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