New Zealand's gravel-bed rivers have deposited coarse, highly conductive gravel aquifers that are predominantly fed by river water. Managing their groundwater resources is challenging because the recharge mechanisms in these rivers are poorly understood and recharge rates are difficult to predict, particularly under a more variable future climate. To understand the river-groundwater exchange pr...

Protected areas are a cornerstone of conservation and have been designed largely around terrestrial features. Freshwater species and ecosystems are highly imperiled, but the effectiveness of existing protected areas in representing freshwater features is poorly known. Using the inland waters of Michigan as a test case, we quantified the coverage of four key freshwater features (wetlands, ripari...

[1] Significant variations in interannual and decadal recharge rates are likely in alluvial basins of the semiarid southwestern United States on the basis of decadal variations in climate and precipitation and correlation of El Niño with high rates of winter precipitation and streamflow. A better understanding of the magnitude of recharge variations in semiarid and arid regions would reduce wat...

Playas are ephemeral, closed-basin wetlands that are hypothesized as an important source of recharge to the High Plains aquifer in central USA. The ephemeral nature of playas, low regional recharge rates, and a strong reliance on groundwater from the High Plains aquifer has prompted many questions regarding the contribution and quality of recharge from playas to the High Plains aquifer. As a re...

[1] The responses of karstic aquifers to storms are often used to obtain information about aquifer geometry. In general, spring hydrographs are a function of both system geometry and recharge. However, the majority of prior work on storm pulses through karst has not studied the effect of recharge on spring hydrographs. To examine the relative importance of geometry and recharge, we break karsti...

Numerical simulations of water ̄ow and solute transport were used to investigate the e€ect of the recharge (rain/irrigation) at the soil surface on solute spreading and breakthrough in a realistic, three-dimensional, heterogeneous, vadose zone±groundwater ̄ow system. Results of the analyses suggest that smaller recharge at the soil surface increases the relative variability in the response of t...

In this study, abstraction, desalination and recharge method and SEAWAT numerical model are used to investigate seawater intrusion repulsion in a hypothetical two-dimensional coastal aquifer to understand the relation of seawater intrusion with abstraction, desalination and recharge parameters (i.e. abstraction/recharge rate, wells distance and depth). Abstraction, desalination and recharge con...

As a widely used groundwater flow model, MODFLOW offers a set of packages to simulate hydrologic stresses, inflows and outflows, to a groundwater system. Specifically, MODFLOW lacks a general method to process areally distributed recharge and discharge to groundwater. One solution would be to create a new package for MODFLOW. Alternatively, it is also possible to make the best use of existing c...

For an isotropic, homogeneous coastal aquifer, previous studies [Aust J Phys 26 (1973) 513; Water Resour Res 17 (4) (1981) 1222] have found that the mean watertable is influenced by the sea tide and will stand considerably above the mean sea level even in the absence of net inland recharge. This paper investigates the influence of the tide on the mean watertable for the case that the unconfined...

Impervious surface cover is commonly used as an environmental indicator for land use and watershed planning. The net quantity of impervious surface added per quantity of residential and commercial development, including the added impervious at the development site as well as the offsite impacts associated with the development (e.g., roads, other infrastructure), can serve as a partial measure o...