Groundwater discharge into an estuary using spatially distributed radon time series and radium isotopes

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 528, Issue , 2015, Pages 703-719

  Sadat Noori, Mahmood ^a   Santos, Isaac R ^a   Sanders, Christian J ^a   Sanders, Luciana M ^a   Maher, Damien T ^a  

^a SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coastal hydrology; Groundwater surface water interaction; Mangrove; Permeable sediments; Submarine groundwater discharge; Tidal estuary

Indexed keywords

ESTUARIES; GROUNDWATER; ISOTOPES; MIXING; RADIUM; RADON; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE WATERS; TIME SERIES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

GROUND WATER DISCHARGE; GROUND WATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTIONS; HIGH TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; MANGROVE; SHALLOW GROUNDWATER; SUBMARINE GROUNDWATER DISCHARGE; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIABILITY; TIDAL ESTUARY;

DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS);

DISCHARGE; ESTUARY; GROUNDWATER; HYDROLOGY; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MASS BALANCE; RADIUM ISOTOPE; RADON ISOTOPE; SAMPLING; SHALLOW WATER; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE WATER; TIME SERIES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84937231901     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2015.06.056     Document Type: Article

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