GIS-based water balance modeling for estimating regional specific yield and distributed recharge in data-scarce hard-rock regions

Journal of Hydro-Environment Research

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 554-568

  Machiwal, Deepesh ^a   Jha, Madan K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Distributed recharge; Double water table fluctuation technique; Hard rock aquifer system; Regional specific yield; Semi arid region; Water balance modeling

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; ARID REGIONS; BUDGET CONTROL; DROUGHT; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; RAIN; SURFACE WATERS;

DISTRIBUTED RECHARGE; DOUBLE WATER-TABLE FLUCTUATION TECHNIQUE; HARD-ROCK AQUIFERS; SEMI-ARID REGION; SPECIFIC YIELD; WATER BALANCE MODELS;

RECHARGING (UNDERGROUND WATERS);

AQUIFER; GIS; HARD ROCK; RECHARGE; SEMIARID REGION; WATER BUDGET; WATER TABLE;

EID: 84949724381     PISSN: 15706443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jher.2014.07.004     Document Type: Article

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