Groundwater extraction, land subsidence, and sea-level rise in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Erban, Laura E ^a   Gorelick, Steven M ^a   Zebker, Howard A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

aquifer pumping; flood hazard; InSAR

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; COMPACTION; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HAZARDS; INTERFEROMETRY; PUMPS; SEA LEVEL; SUBSIDENCE; WELLS;

FLOOD HAZARDS; GROUNDWATER EXPLOITATION; GROUNDWATER EXTRACTION; GROUNDWATER PUMPING; INSAR; INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; SEDIMENTARY LAYERS; TIME-SERIES DATA;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALOS; AQUIFER; FLOODING; GROUNDWATER ABSTRACTION; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HYDRAULIC HEAD; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; PALSAR; PUMPING; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SUBSIDENCE;

MEKONG DELTA; VIET NAM;

EID: 84907683043     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/8/084010     Document Type: Article

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