Research Catalog

Title

Groundwater recharge from run-off, infiltration and percolation / by K.-P. Seiler and J.R. Gat.

Author

Seiler, Klaus-Peter

Publication

Dordrecht, The Netherlands : Springer, c2007.

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Additional Authors

Gat, Joel, 1926-

Description

xv, 241 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.

Summary

"This book first addresses the recharge fluxes relating both to the quantity and quality of groundwater. In order to face the threats to the water supply and to be able to maintain a sustainable water management policy, detailed knowledge is needed on the surface-to-subsurface transformation link in the water cycle. Secondly, a comparison of both the traditional and modern approaches to determine groundwater recharge is presented. The traditional approach to determine groundwater recharge is based on water balance estimates and hydraulic considerations, which yield instantaneous values at best but do not integrate the totality of recharge pathways in time and space. In contrast, environmental tracers integrate these factors. Finally, the fate of groundwater recharge in the subsurface by hydraulic and geologic means is explained in detail, in order to stimulate adapted groundwater-management strategies and to better assess consequences of climate changes on groundwater resources as a whole." "This book will be valuable for researchers and scientists in hydrology, hydro-geology, engineering, geography, agronomy, soil science, groundwater modelling, environmental physics and limnology."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Water science and technology library ; v. 55

Uniform Title

• Water science and technology library v. 55.
• Water Science and Technology Library, 55

Subject

• Groundwater recharge
• Geography
• Hydraulic engineering
• Physical geography
• Pollution
• Earth Sciences
• Hydrogeology
• Fluid- and Aerodynamics
• Environmental Monitoring/Analysis
• Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution
• Physical Geography

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-235) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- The water cycle -- Mechanisms and processes of recharge -- Research tools and methods in the study of recharge -- Recharge under different climate regimes -- Man's impact on the groundwater recharge.

ISBN

• 9781402053054
• 1402053053

OCLC

144524614

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library