Linking groundwater use and stress to specific crops using the groundwater footprint in the Central Valley and High Plains aquifer systems, U.S.

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 4953-4973

  Esnault, Laurent ^a   Gleeson, Tom ^a   Wada, Yoshihide ^b   Heinke, Jens ^c   Gerten, Dieter ^c   Flanary, Elizabeth ^a   Bierkens, Marc F P ^b,d   Van Beek, Ludovicus P H ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d DELTARES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

agricultural crop; aquifer systems; groundwater depletion; groundwater footprint; groundwater stress; irrigation; U.S.

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; CROPS; FLOOD CONTROL; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; IRRIGATION; LANDFORMS;

AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES; AGRICULTURAL CROPS; AQUIFER SYSTEMS; ARTIFICIAL RECHARGE; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; GROUNDWATER DEPLETION; RELATIVE UNCERTAINTY; U.S;

RECHARGING (UNDERGROUND WATERS);

BOS; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84902734001     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013WR014792     Document Type: Article

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