Origins of Groundwater Inferred from Isotopic Patterns of the Badain Jaran Desert, Northwestern China

Ground Water

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 715-725

  Zhao, Liangju ^a   Xiao, Honglang ^a   Dong, Zhibao ^a   Xiao, Shengchun ^a   Zhou, Maoxian ^a   Cheng, Guodong ^a   Yin, Li ^a   Yin, Zhenliang ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; HEIHE RIVER BASIN; HIGH EVAPORATION RATE; HIGHER RELATIVE HUMIDITY; ISOTOPIC PATTERN; MONGOLIA; NORTHWESTERN CHINA; QILIAN MOUNTAINS; RIVER WATER; SNOWMELT; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPRING WATER; STABLE ISOTOPES; WATERBODIES;

DEUTERIUM; EVAPORATION; LANDFORMS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; RIVERS;

GROUNDWATER;

GROUND WATER; ISOTOPE;

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; DEUTERIUM; EVAPORATION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LOW TEMPERATURE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RECHARGE; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SNOWMELT;

ARTICLE; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METHODOLOGY; WATER FLOW;

CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GROUNDWATER; ISOTOPES; WATER MOVEMENTS;

BADANJILIN DESERT; CHINA; HAI BASIN; QILIAN MOUNTAINS;

EID: 84865551236     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: 17456584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2011.00895.x     Document Type: Article

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