Potential climate change effects on groundwater recharge in the High Plains Aquifer, USA

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 3936-3951

  Crosbie, Russell S ^a   Scanlon, Bridget R ^b   Mpelasoka, Freddie S ^a   Reedy, Robert C ^b   Gates, John B ^c   Zhang, Lu ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

global warming; High Plains; recharge; WAVES

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; CLIMATE MODELS; FORESTRY; GLOBAL WARMING; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; RAIN; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VEGETATION; WAVES;

EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT; FUTURE CLIMATE SCENARIOS; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; GROUND WATER RECHARGE; HIGH PLAINS; QUANTITATIVE PREDICTION; RECHARGE; SOIL-VEGETATION-ATMOSPHERE TRANSFER MODELS;

RECHARGING (UNDERGROUND WATERS);

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL WARMING; GROUNDWATER RESOURCE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RECHARGE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL TYPE; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION;

OGALLALA AQUIFER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84879851725     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20292     Document Type: Article

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