A review of radioactive isotopes and other residence time tracers in understanding groundwater recharge: Possibilities, challenges, and limitations

I Cartwright, D Cendón, M Currell, K Meredith - Journal of Hydrology, 2017 - Elsevier
Documenting the location and magnitude of groundwater recharge is critical for
understanding groundwater flow systems. Radioactive tracers, notably 14 C, 3 H, 36 Cl, and …

A review of the use of radiocarbon to estimate groundwater residence times in semi-arid and arid areas

I Cartwright, MJ Currell, DI Cendón, KT Meredith - Journal of Hydrology, 2020 - Elsevier
Groundwater is an important resource in arid and semi-arid regions and determining its
residence times is critical for sustainable use. Radiocarbon (14 C) is currently the primary …

Quantifying dual recharge mechanisms in deep unsaturated zone of Chinese Loess Plateau using stable isotopes

W Xiang, BC Si, A Biswas, Z Li - Geoderma, 2019 - Elsevier
Apportioning recharge to piston flow and preferential flow is critical for groundwater resource
management and hydrologic connectivity evaluation, but the occurrence of the two flows in …

[HTML][HTML] Long-term and seasonal variation in groundwater storage in the North China Plain based on GRACE

Y Xu, H Gong, B Chen, Q Zhang, ZZ Li - International Journal of Applied …, 2021 - Elsevier
The over exploitation of groundwater has seriously restricted the healthy development of
social economy in North China Plain (NCP). The study of the change in the groundwater …

Determining regional-scale groundwater recharge with GRACE and GLDAS

Q Wu, B Si, H He, P Wu - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
Groundwater recharge (GR) is a key component of regional and global water cycles and is a
critical flux for water resource management. However, recharge estimates are difficult to …

Field variation of groundwater recharge and its uncertainty via multiple tracers' method in deep loess vadose zone

H Li, M Li, C Miao, B Si, Y Lu - Science of The Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Accurate estimation of groundwater recharge is a precondition for assessing its spatial
variation at different scales, especially field scale. In the field, the limitations and …

[PDF][PDF] Groundwater recharge mechanism in an integrated tableland of the Loess Plateau, northern China: insights from environmental tracers

T Huang, Z Pang, J Liu, J Ma, J Gates - Hydrogeology Journal, 2017 - drive.google.com
Assessing groundwater recharge characteristics (recharge rate, history, mechanisms (piston
and preferential flow)) and groundwater age in arid and semi-arid environments remains a …

Elucidating controls of the variability of deep soil bulk density

Y Lu, B Si, H Li, A Biswas - Geoderma, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Information on the variability of bulk density (BD) in deep soil is critical to
understand the hydrological dynamics of the deep unsaturated zone (USZ), but studies have …

Occurrence, source, and mobilization of iron, manganese, and arsenic pollution in shallow aquifer

MS Islam, MG Mostafa - Geofluids, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This investigation is aimed at exploring the mobilization and sources of Fe, Mn, and As in
aquifers through geochemical characterization, spatial analysis, and statistical approaches …

Impact of afforestation on atmospheric recharge to groundwater in a semiarid area

T Huang, Z Pang, S Yang, L Yin - Journal of Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
While the global forest area is generally decreasing, various afforestation projects have
been implemented, including the large‐scale Three‐North Afforestation Program (TNAP) …