Screen LibraryGroundwater recharge in a desert environment the southwestern United States /
This volume contains discussions on developing environmental tracers to fingerprint sources and amounts of groundwater at the basin scale; the critical role of vegetation in hydroecological processes; new geophysical methods in quantifying channel recharge; applying geographical information system (...
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| Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Water science and application,
9 |
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| Online Access: |
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1029/WS009 |
| Summary: |
This volume contains discussions on developing environmental tracers to fingerprint sources and amounts of groundwater at the basin scale; the critical role of vegetation in hydroecological processes; new geophysical methods in quantifying channel recharge; applying geographical information system (GIS) models to land surface processes; coupling process-based vadose zone to groundwater modeling; and more. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (vii, 294 p.) : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9781118665664 (electronic bk.) 111866566X (electronic bk.) |
| Index Number: | GB1197 |
| CLC: | P641 |
| Contents: |
Introduction and overview / Hydrologic processes in deep vadose zones in interdrainage arid environments / Tectonic, climatic, and land-use controls on groundwater recharge in an arid alluvial basin : Amargosa Desert, U.S.A. / Millimeter- to kilometer-scale variations in vadose-zone bedrock solutes : implications for estimating recharge in arid settings / Processes controlling recharge beneath ephemeral streams in southern Arizona / Comparison of methods to estimate ephemeral channel recharge, Walnut Gulch, San Pedro River Basin, Arizona / Modeling variably saturated flow using kinematic waves in MODFLOW / Mountain-block hydrology and mountain front recharge / Constraining mountain-block recharge to the eastern Salt Lake Valley, Utah with dissolved noble gas and tritium data / Fundamental concepts of recharge in the desert Southwest : a regional modeling perspective / Using geochemical data and aquifer simulation to characterize recharge and groundwater flow in the Middle Rio Grande Basin, New Mexico / The origins, ages and flow paths of groundwater in Tucson basin : results of a study of multiple isotope systems / Evaluation of methods of estimating recharge in semiarid and arid regions in the southwestern U.S. / Semi-discrete dynamical model for mountain-front recharge and water balance estimation, Rio Grande of southern Colorado and New Mexico / Effects of environmental change on groundwater recharge in the desert Southwest / |