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Age and quality stratification of groundwater in the Triassic Sherwood Sandstone aquifer of South Yorkshire and the East Midlands, UK
(Elsevier, 2018-08-09)Groundwater from the Triassic Sherwood Sandstone aquifer of the English East Midlands shows a well-documented evolution in chemistry and residence time as it flows downgradient from shallow unconfined conditions to greater ... -
Solid Waste Management Solutions for a Rapidly Urbanizing Area in Thailand: Recommendations Based on Stakeholder Input
(MDPI, 2018-06-21)Municipal solid waste is a significant problem, particularly in developing countries that lack sufficient infrastructure and useable land mass to process it in an appropriate manner. Some developing nations are experiencing ... -
Lead, Zinc, Copper, and Cadmium Content of Water from South Australian Rainwater Tanks
(MDPI, 2018-07-23)Rainwater is consumed for drinking water in many parts of Australia, either preferentially over municipal water or in regional or remote areas, because rainwater is the primary source of water. Previous rainwater studies ... -
Stochastic correction of carbon-14 activities: A Bayesian approach with argon-39 validation
(Elsevier, 2018-08-27)Carbon-14 (14C) has been measured in groundwater for over half a century and remains a widely used tool for understanding groundwater flow systems. Ultimately, the usefulness of 14C as a groundwater tracer relies on the ... -
Peri-urban agricultural land vulnerability due to urban sprawl – a multi-criteria spatially-explicit scenario analysis
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2018-10-09)The loss of agricultural land at urban fringes is often monitored but rarely analysed under different scenarios of urban sprawl. This study adopts a multi-criteria spatially-explicit approach to investigate agricultural ... -
Stochastic correction of carbon-14 activities: A Bayesian approach with argon-39 validation
(Elsevier, 2018-08-27)Carbon-14 (14C) has been measured in groundwater for over half a century and remains a widely used tool for understanding groundwater flow systems. Ultimately, the usefulness of 14C as a groundwater tracer relies on the ... -
Comparison of MODIS and SWAT evapotranspiration over a complex terrain at different spatial scales
(Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union., 2018)In most hydrological systems, evapotranspiration (ET) and precipitation are the largest components of the water balance, which are difficult to estimate, particularly over complex terrain. In recent decades, the advent ... -
Fluoride and phosphate release from carbonate-rich fluorapatite during managed aquifer recharge
(Elsevier, 2018-07)Managed aquifer recharge (MAR) is increasingly used as a water management tool to enhance water availability and to improve water quality. Until now, however, the risk of fluoride release during MAR with low ionic strength ... -
Climatic and environmental controls on stable isotopes in atmospheric water vapor near the surface observed in Changsha, China
(Elsevier, 2018)Continuous measurements were made of isotopic compositions in atmospheric water vapor (δv) and in atmospheric precipitation (δp) near the surface in the subtropical monsoon region (Changsha, China) from October 2014 to ... -
Uncertainty of groundwater recharge estimated from a water and energy balance model
(Elsevier, 2017-08-16)Coupled water and energy balance models have become increasingly popular for estimating groundwater recharge, because of the integration of energy and water balances and sometimes carbon balance. The additional balances ... -
Foredune morphodynamics and sediment budgets at seasonal to decadal scales: Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge, California, USA.
(Elsevier, 2018-06-04)Coastal foredunes are shore-parallel ridges that form in the backshore and their morphodynamics are controlled partly by seasonal and spatial variations in the coastal (onshore) sediment budget that, in turn, are driven ... -
Revisiting analytical solutions for steady interface flow in subsea aquifers: Aquitard salinity effects
(Elsevier, 2018-01-31)Existing analytical solutions for the distribution of fresh groundwater in subsea aquifers presume that the overlying offshore aquitard, represented implicitly, contains seawater. Here, we consider the case where offshore ... -
On the resilience of small-island freshwater lenses: Evidence of the long-term impacts of groundwater abstraction on Bonriki Island, Kiribati
(Elsevier, 2018-06-15)Groundwater on islands occurs in the form of freshwater lenses that serve as an important water resource for local inhabitants. These lenses are highly vulnerable to salinization due to natural recharge variations and ... -
Solubility Characteristics and Slow-Release Mechanism of Nitrogen from Organic-Inorganic Compound Coated Urea
(Hindawi, 2015-01-22)A soil incubation method was used to investigate the solubility characteristics and slow-release mechanism of organic-inorganic compound coated urea at temperature of 10, 20, and 30°C. The membrane microstructure with and ... -
Strain Amplification Analysis of an Osteocyte under Static and Cyclic Loading: A Finite Element Study
(Hindawi, 2015-01-15)Osteocytes, the major type of bone cells which reside in their lacunar and canalicular system within the bone matrix, function as biomechanosensors and biomechanotransducers of the bone. Although biomechanical behaviour ... -
The onshore influence of offshore fresh groundwater
(Elsevier, 2018-03-13)Freshwater contained within the submarine extensions of coastal aquifers is increasingly proposed as a freshwater source for coastal communities. However, the extent to which offshore freshwater supports onshore pumping ... -
Palaeohydrogeology and Transport Parameters Derived from 4He and Cl Profiles in Aquitard Pore Waters in a Large Multilayer Aquifer System, Central Australia
(Hindawi, 2017-11-20)A study of chloride and 4He profiles through an aquitard that separates the Great Artesian Basin from the underlying Arckaringa Basin in central Australia is presented. The aquitard separates two aquifers with long water ... -
A Generalized Semi-Analytical Solution for the Dispersive Henry Problem: Effect of Stratification and Anisotropy on Seawater Intrusion
(MDPI, 2018-02-23)The Henry problem (HP) continues to play a useful role in theoretical and practical studies related to seawater intrusion (SWI) into coastal aquifers. The popularity of this problem is attributed to its simplicity and ... -
Active heat pulse sensing of 3-D-flow fields in streambeds
(Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union, 2018-03-20)Profiles of temperature time series are commonly used to determine hyporheic flow patterns and hydraulic dynamics in the streambed sediments. Although hyporheic flows are 3-D, past research has focused on determining the ... -
Flux dynamics at the groundwater-surface water interface in a tropical catchment
(Elsevier, 2017-07-12)Seasonal shifts between wet and dry seasons cause marked changes in river flow regimes and therefore exchanges with the streambed surface. This seasonal variation is particularly apparent in tropical climates, which are ...
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