Impacts of 25 years of groundwater extraction on subsidence in the Mekong delta, Vietnam

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2017, Pages

  Minderhoud, P S J ^a,b   Erkens, G ^a,b   Pham, V H ^a,b,c   Bui, V T ^c   Erban, L ^d   Kooi, H ^b   Stouthamer, E ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^c Division for Water Resources Planning and Investigation of the South of Vietnam   (Viet Nam)

^d National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Delta subsidence; groundwater exploitation; iMOD; modelling; sea level rise

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; EXTRACTION; FLOODS; GROUNDWATER; MODELS; SEA LEVEL; SUBSIDENCE;

GLOBAL SEA LEVEL RISE; GROUNDWATER EXPLOITATION; GROUNDWATER EXTRACTION; GROUNDWATER WITHDRAWAL; HYDROGEOLOGICAL MODELS; IMOD; SEA LEVEL RISE; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT ASSESSMENTS;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

AQUIFER; GROUNDWATER EXPLORATION; HYDROGEOLOGY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; SALINIZATION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; STORM SURGE; SUBSIDENCE;

MEKONG DELTA; VIET NAM;

EID: 85021261881     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aa7146     Document Type: Article

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