Tracing the sources and processes of groundwater in an alpine glacierized region in Southwest China: Evidence from environmental isotopes

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 2673-2690

  Meng, Yuchuan ^a   Liu, Guodong ^a   Li, Mingxi ^b  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Power China Huadong Engineering Corporation Limited   (China)

Author keywords

Groundwater; Hailuogou watershed; Ice snow meltwater; Stable isotope

Indexed keywords

GROUNDWATER; ICE; ISOTOPES; SNOW; WATERSHEDS;

ENVIRONMENTAL ISOTOPES; GROUND WATER RECHARGE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC SIGNATURES; ISOTOPIC VARIATIONS; SHALLOW GROUNDWATER; STABLE ISOTOPES; STABLE ISOTOPIC COMPOSITIONS;

RECHARGING (UNDERGROUND WATERS);

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; EVAPORATION; GLACIAL HYDROLOGY; GLACIER DYNAMICS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MELTING; MELTWATER; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RECHARGE; STABLE ISOTOPE; WATERSHED;

CHINA; GONGGA MOUNTAIN; HAILUOGOU GLACIER; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; SICHUAN;

EID: 84938702576     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w7062673     Document Type: Article

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