Evaluating the relationship between topography and groundwater using outputs from a continental-scale integrated hydrology model

Water Resources Research

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 6602-6621

  Condon, Laura E ^a,b   Maxwell, Reed M ^a,b  

^a Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

groundwater; heterogeneity; modeling; water table depth

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGY; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDROLOGY; MODELS; SURFACE WATERS; TOPOGRAPHY;

GROUNDWATER FLOW SYSTEMS; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATERS; HETEROGENEITY; INTEGRATED HYDROLOGY MODELS; NON-LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; NONLINEAR INTERACTIONS; NUMERICAL MODELING APPROACH; WATER TABLE DEPTHS;

GROUNDWATER;

CONDUCTIVITY; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HETEROGENEITY; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; INTEGRATED APPROACH; NUMERICAL MODEL; TOPOGRAPHY; WATER DEPTH; WATER TABLE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84941995493     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014WR016774     Document Type: Article

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