A review of groundwater in high mountain environments

LD Somers, JM McKenzie - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Mountain water resources are of particular importance for downstream populations but are
threatened by decreasing water storage in snowpack and glaciers. Groundwater …

A global-scale dataset of direct natural groundwater recharge rates: A review of variables, processes and relationships

C Moeck, N Grech-Cumbo, J Podgorski… - Science of the total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Groundwater recharge indicates the existence of renewable groundwater resources and is
therefore an important component in sustainability studies. However, recharge is also one of …

Hydraulic conductivity characteristics in mountains and implications for conceptualizing bedrock groundwater flow

LA Welch, DM Allen - Hydrogeology Journal, 2014 - search.proquest.com
Influences of hydraulic conductivity (K) heterogeneities on bedrock groundwater (BG) flow
systems in mountainous topography are investigated using a conceptual 2D numerical …

Multi-site calibration, validation, and sensitivity analysis of the MIKE SHE Model for a large watershed in northern China

S Wang, Z Zhang, G Sun, P Strauss… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2012 - hess.copernicus.org
Model calibration is essential for hydrologic modeling of large watersheds in a
heterogeneous mountain environment. Little guidance is available for model calibration …

Contribution of alluvial groundwater to the outflow of mountainous catchments

D Käser, D Hunkeler - Water Resources Research, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Alluvial aquifers in mountainous regions cover typically a limited area. Their contribution to
catchment storage and outflow is rarely isolated; alluvial groundwater discharge under …

Isolating the impacts of climate change and land use change on decadal streamflow variation: Assessing three complementary approaches

S Wang, Z Zhang, TR McVicar, J Guo, Y Tang… - Journal of Hydrology, 2013 - Elsevier
Assessing the respective impacts of land use change and climate change on decadal
streamflow variation is important for water resources management. By using:(i) a simple eco …

Consistency of groundwater flow patterns in mountainous topography: Implications for valley bottom water replenishment and for defining groundwater flow …

LA Welch, DM Allen - Water Resources Research, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Topographic influences on groundwater flow processes that contribute to baseflow and
mountain block recharge (MBR) are conceptually investigated using three‐dimensional …

Field estimates of groundwater circulation depths in two mountainous watersheds in the western US and the effect of deep circulation on solute concentrations in …

MD Frisbee, DG Tolley, JL Wilson - Water Resources Research, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Estimates of groundwater circulation depths based on field data are lacking. These data are
critical to inform and refine hydrogeologic models of mountainous watersheds, and to …

Isotopic and geochemical evolution of ground and river waters in a karst dominated geological setting: a case study from Lijiang basin, South-Asia monsoon region

T Pu, Y He, T Zhang, J Wu, G Zhu, L Chang - Applied geochemistry, 2013 - Elsevier
Analysis of O isotopes and major ions in river and spring waters in Lijiang basin–Yulong
Mountain region, SW China was carried out to identify the geochemical evolution affecting …

Modeling coupled surface water–Groundwater processes in a small mountainous headwater catchment

HM Voeckler, DM Allen, Y Alila - Journal of Hydrology, 2014 - Elsevier
Hydrological models for headwater catchments have typically excluded deep groundwater
flow based on the assumption that it is a negligible component of the water budget. This …