Basal heat-flow and hydrothermal regime at the Golan-Ajloun hydrological basins

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 476, Issue , 2013, Pages 200-211

  Roded, R ^a,b   Shalev, E ^b   Katoshevski, D ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Geothermal systems; Heat flow; Numerical modeling

Indexed keywords

2-D NUMERICAL SIMULATION; DEEP CONVECTION; DEEP FLOW; FLOW AND HEAT TRANSFER; GEOTHERMAL HEAT; GEOTHERMAL SYSTEMS; GOLAN HEIGHTS; GREAT DEPTH; HEAT FLOW VALUE; HEAT SOURCES; HEAT-FLOW; MODEL RESULTS; THERMAL ANOMALIES; THERMAL FIELD;

GEOTHERMAL FIELDS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT TRANSFER; NUMERICAL MODELS;

GROUNDWATER;

GEOTHERMAL SYSTEM; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HEAT FLOW; HEAT TRANSFER; NUMERICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; THERMAL CONVECTION; THERMAL REGIME;

ISRAEL; JORDAN;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 84870988426     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.10.035     Document Type: Article

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