Evaluating surface and subsurface water storage variations at small time and space scales from relative gravity measurements in semiarid Niger

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 3276-3291

  Pfeffer, Julia ^a   Champollion, Cédric ^b   Favreau, Guillaume ^c   Cappelaere, Bernard ^c   Hinderer, Jacques ^a   Boucher, Marie ^c,d   Nazoumou, Yahaya ^e   Oï, Monique ^c   Mouyen, Maxime ^a,f   Henri, Christopher ^c   Le Moigne, Nicolas ^b   Deroussi, Sébastien ^g   Demarty, Jérôme ^c   Boulain, Nicolas ^h   Benarrosh, Nathalie ^c   Robert, Olivier ^g  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG EOST   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTPELLIER   (France)

^d INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ ABDOU MOUMOUNI   (Niger)

^f INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^g INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

groundwater; magnetic resonance soundings; microgravimetry; semiarid; surface water; vadose zone

Indexed keywords

GROUNDWATER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC STORAGE; MAGNETISM; MICROGRAVITY; MICROGRAVITY PROCESSING; SURFACE WATERS; SURVEYS;

HYDROLOGICAL MODEL CALIBRATIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SOUNDINGS; MICROGRAVIMETRY; RESOURCE ASSESSMENTS; SEMIARID; TRADITIONAL APPROACHES; VADOSE ZONE; WATER STORAGE VARIATION;

DIGITAL STORAGE;

CALIBRATION; GRAVIMETRY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MEASUREMENT METHOD; RESOURCE ASSESSMENT; SUBSURFACE FLOW; TIMESCALE; VADOSE ZONE; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER STORAGE;

SAHEL [SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA];

EID: 84880287525     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20235     Document Type: Article

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