Exploring the long-term balance between net precipitation and net groundwater exchange in Florida seepage lakes

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 519, Issue PD, 2014, Pages 3054-3068

  Lee, Terrie M ^a   Sacks, Laura A ^a   Swancar, Amy ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evaporation; Groundwater; Lake; Net precipitation; Sustainable; Water balance

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BUDGET CONTROL; CLIMATOLOGY; EVAPORATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOLOGY; SEEPAGE; WATER SUPPLY;

GROUNDWATER EXCHANGES; GROUNDWATER PUMPING; HYDROGEOLOGIC SETTING; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; PRECIPITATION DEFICITS; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SUSTAINABLE; WATER BALANCE;

LAKES;

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTION; KARST; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEEPAGE; TERRAIN; VULNERABILITY; WATER BUDGET;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84919918616     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.04.009     Document Type: Article

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