Relative contribution of monsoon precipitation and pumping to changes in groundwater storage in India

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 109-117

  Asoka, Akarsh ^a   Gleeson, Tom ^b   Wada, Yoshihide ^c,d,e,f   Mishra, Vimal ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GANDHINAGAR   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^d NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies   (United States)

^e UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUNDWATER ABSTRACTION; IRRIGATION; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PUMPING; RECHARGE; TELECONNECTION; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER RESOURCE; WATER STORAGE;

INDIA; INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 85017108522     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2869     Document Type: Article

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