A 70-year groundwater recharge record from sandy loess in northwestern China and its climatic implications

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 76, Issue 24, 2017, Pages

  Deng, Lin ^a,b   Wang, Wenke ^a   Cai, Yanjun ^b,c   Hu, Anyan ^a   Sun, Dongyong ^a  

^a CHANG'AN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^c XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chloride mass balance; Climate change; Northwestern China; Recharge history; Sandy loess; Unsaturated zone

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; GROUNDWATER; RECHARGING (UNDERGROUND WATERS); SEDIMENTS;

ARID AND SEMI-ARID REGIONS; CHINESE LOESS PLATEAU; CHLORIDE CONCENTRATIONS; CHLORIDE MASS BALANCE; NORTHWESTERN CHINA; SANDY LOESS; SEMI-ARID ENVIRONMENTS; UNSATURATED ZONE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ARID REGION; CHEMICAL MASS BALANCE; CHLORIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; DESERT; GROUNDWATER; LOESS; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOHYDROLOGY; RECHARGE; RECONSTRUCTION; SANDY SOIL; SEMIARID REGION; TRANSITION ZONE; VADOSE ZONE;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU;

EID: 85038094744     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-017-7155-y     Document Type: Article

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