Estimating groundwater recharge / Richard W. Healy ; with contributions by Bridget R. Scanlon.

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"Understanding groundwater recharge is essential for successful management of water resources and modeling fluid and contaminant transport within the subsurface. This book provides a critical evaluation of the theory and assumptions that underlie methods for estimating rates of groundwater recharge....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Healy, R. W.
Other Authors: Scanlon, Bridget R.
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Groundwater recharge > Mathematical models.
Physical Description:viii, 245 pages : figures, maps
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Preface; 1. Groundwater recharge; 2. Water-budget methods; 3. Modeling methods; 4. Methods based on surface-water data; 5. Physical methods - unsaturated zone; 6. Physical methods - saturated zone; 7. Chemical tracer methods; 8. Heat tracer methods; 9. Linking estimation methods to conceptual models of groundwater recharge; References; Index.