Subregional-scale groundwater depletion detected by GRACE for both shallow and deep aquifers in North China Plain

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1791-1799

  Huang, Zhiyong ^a   Pan, Yun ^a   Gong, Huili ^a   Yeh, Pat J F ^b   Li, Xiaojuan ^a   Zhou, Demin ^a   Zhao, Wenji ^a  

^a CAPITAL NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

deep groundwater; forward modeling; GRACE; groundwater depletion; North China Plain; subregional scale

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; DIGITAL STORAGE; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOLOGY; WATER CONSERVATION;

DEEP GROUNDWATERS; FORWARD MODELING; GRACE; GROUNDWATER DEPLETION; NORTH CHINA PLAIN; SUBREGIONAL SCALE;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

ESTIMATION METHOD; GRACE; GROUNDWATER FLOW; REGIONAL PATTERN; SHALLOW WATER; WATER LEVEL; WATER STORAGE;

CHINA; NORTH CHINA PLAIN;

EID: 84927714820     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL062498     Document Type: Article

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