Groundwater Levels in Northern Texas High Plains: Baseline for Existing Agricultural Management Practices

Texas Water Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 22-34

  Hernández, Jairo E ^a   Gowda, Prasanna H ^b   Marek, Thomas H ^c   Howell, Terry A ^b   Ha, Wonsook ^b  

^a Boise State University   (United States)

^b USDA ARS Conservation and Production Research Laboratory ^*  (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Groundwater modeling; irrigation; MODFLOW; Ogallala Aquifer; water management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893126533     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21605319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21423/twj.v4i1.5356     Document Type: Article

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