Shallow groundwater dynamics and its driving forces in extremely arid areas: A case study of the lower Heihe River in northwestern China

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1539-1553

  Wang, Ping ^a   Yu, Jingjie ^a   Pozdniakov, Sergey P ^b   Grinevsky, Sergey O ^b   Liu, Changming ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Arid region; Evapotranspiration; Groundwater dynamics; Heihe River; Riverbank filtration

Indexed keywords

ARID INLAND RIVER BASINS; COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS; GROUNDWATER DYNAMICS; GROUNDWATER FLUCTUATION; HEIHE RIVER; RIVERBANK FILTRATION; SURFACE-GROUNDWATER INTERACTION; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIATION;

ARID REGIONS; DYNAMICS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GROUNDWATER FLOW; PROCESS CONTROL; RIVERS;

GROUNDWATER;

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FLOW MODELING; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; RECHARGE; RIPARIAN ZONE; SHALLOW WATER; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WATER LEVEL; WATER TABLE;

CHINA; GANSU; GOBI DESERT; HEI RIVER;

EID: 84891737551     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.9682     Document Type: Article

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