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Estimating groundwater recharge

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2011

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Stonestrom, David A, 2011, Estimating groundwater recharge: Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, v. 92, iss. 32.

Summary

Groundwater recharge is the entry of fresh water into the saturated portion of the subsurface part of the hydrologic cycle, the modifier “saturated” indicating that the pressure of the pore water is greater than atmospheric. Briefly stated, recharge is downward flux across the water table. The term “groundwater recharge” can refer either to the multiple interacting processes generating and controlling the flux or to the flux R itself. When referring to flux, R can represent either (1) a value integrated over large areas and long periods of time or (2) a point value, or instantaneous flux density, that varies erratically as well as continuously in time and space. Knowing how R is distributed through space and time is required for understanding [...]

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  • USGS National Research Program

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Added to ScienceBase on Thu Apr 18 09:04:01 MDT 2013 by processing file <b>Environmental Tracers of Surface-Water - Ground-Water Interactions (Constantz:Stonestrom).xml</b> in item <a href="https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/504216b9e4b04b508bfd337d">https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/504216b9e4b04b508bfd337d</a>

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DOI http://sciencebase.gov/vocab/identifierScheme 10.1029/2011EO320008

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