Watershed-scale response of groundwater recharge to inter-annual and inter-decadal variability in precipitation (Alberta, Canada);Réponse de la recharge souterraine à la variabilité des précipitations interannuelles et inter-décadaires à l’échelle d’un bassin versant (Alberta, Canada);Resposta da recarga de aquíferos à variabilidade interanual e inter-década da precipitação, à escala da bacia hidrográfica (Alberta, Canada);Respuesta de la recarga de agua subterránea a escala de cuenca a variabilidad interdecádica e interanual en las precipitaciones (Alberta, Canadá)

Hydrogeology Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1825-1839

  Hayashi, Masaki ^a   Farrow, Christopher R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b Waterline Resources Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

baseflow; Canada; Climate change; Groundwater recharge; Snowmelt runoff

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; AQUIFER; BASEFLOW; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECADAL VARIATION; GROUNDWATER FLOW; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RECHARGE; RUNOFF; SNOWMELT; WATERSHED;

ALBERTA; CANADA;

EID: 84911989358     PISSN: 14312174     EISSN: 14350157     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10040-014-1176-3     Document Type: Article

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