Implications of deep drainage through saline clay for groundwater recharge and sustainable cropping in a semi-arid catchment, Australia

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1203-1219

  Timms, W A ^a   Young, R R ^b   Huth, N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b NSW DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION SYSTEM; CHLORIDE CONCENTRATIONS; GROUND WATER RECHARGE; GROUNDWATER SALINITIES; HYDROLOGICAL CONDITION; MURRAY-DARLING BASINS (MDB); POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; REGIONAL GROUNDWATER;

ARID REGIONS; CATCHMENTS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CLAY; CROPS; ECONOMICS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; LEACHING; RAIN; RIVERS; RUNOFF; SALINE WATER; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL SURVEYS; VEGETATION; WATER SUPPLY;

RECHARGING (UNDERGROUND WATERS);

ALLUVIAL PLAIN; CLAY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CROP YIELD; DISCHARGE; DRYLAND FARMING; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FLOODPLAIN; HYDROGEOLOGY; LEACHING; PIEZOMETER; RAINFALL; RECHARGE; SALINITY; SALINIZATION; SOFTWARE; SOIL SURVEY; VADOSE ZONE; WATER BUDGET; WATER TABLE;

AUSTRALIA; MURRAY-DARLING BASIN; NAMOI BASIN; NEW SOUTH WALES;

EID: 84880670207     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-16-1203-2012     Document Type: Article

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