A significant nexus: Geographically isolated wetlands influence landscape hydrology

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 7153-7166

  McLaughlin, Daniel L ^a,b   Kaplan, David A ^c   Cohen, Matthew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

GIWs act as hydrologic sinks and sources in response to climate; GIWs buffer surficial aquifer variation; GIWs effects on regional water table and base flow were modeled; Impacting stream base flow

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; AQUIFERS; CAPACITANCE; CLIMATE MODELS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROLOGY; SOIL MOISTURE; WATER LEVELS; GROUNDWATER;

BASEFLOWS; GEOGRAPHIC ISOLATION; GIWS ACT AS HYDROLOGIC SINKS AND SOURCES IN RESPONSE TO CLIMATE; GIWS BUFFER SURFICIAL AQUIFER VARIATION; GROUNDWATER INTERACTION; HYDRAULIC GRADIENTS; HYDROLOGIC SYSTEMS; REGIONAL HYDROLOGIES; CLEAN WATER ACT; DEPRESSIONAL WETLAND; GROUNDWATER EXCHANGES; HYDROLOGIC MODELING; SPECIFIC YIELD;

WETLANDS;

BASEFLOW; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS; WATER LEVEL; WATER TABLE; WETLAND; AQUIFER; ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GROUNDWATER; HYDRAULICS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SOIL TEXTURE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84915809821     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013WR015002     Document Type: Article

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