A statistical approach to estimating evapotranspiration from diurnal groundwater level fluctuations

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 2276-2292

  Wang, Ping ^a   Pozdniakov, Sergey P ^b  

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

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

arid semiarid region; evapotranspiration; saturated unsaturated flow model; statistical analysis; water table fluctuations

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; SENSORS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ARID/SEMIARID REGION; DAILY EVAPOTRANSPIRATIONS; GROUNDWATER CONSUMPTION; GROUNDWATER FLUCTUATION; GROUNDWATER LEVEL FLUCTUATION; SATURATED-UNSATURATED FLOW; STATISTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; WATER TABLE FLUCTUATIONS;

GROUNDWATER;

EID: 84895854325     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013WR014251     Document Type: Article

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