Evaluation of groundwater sustainability based on groundwater age simulation in the Zhangye Basin of Heihe River watershed, northwestern China

Journal of Arid Land

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 264-272

  Wei, Heng ^a,b   Xiao, HongLang ^a   Yin, ZhenLiang ^a,b   Lu, ZhiXiang ^a,b  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

groundwater age; groundwater flow; numerical modeling; water resource sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893212610     PISSN: 16746767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40333-013-0210-y     Document Type: Article

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