Groundwater Storage and Depletion Trends in Tamil Nadu State, India

Water Resources Management

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 2139-2152

  Chinnasamy, Pennan ^a   Agoramoorthy, Govindasamy ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Nepal)

^b TAJEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

GLDAS; GRACE; Green revolution; Groundwater use; India; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS; AGRICULTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DIGITAL STORAGE; FOOD STORAGE; GROUNDWATER; IRRIGATION; NASA; REMOTE SENSING; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER RESOURCES;

GLDAS; GRACE; GREEN REVOLUTION; GROUNDWATER USE; INDIA;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

EID: 84939940752     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: 15731650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-015-0932-z     Document Type: Article

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