Articles | Volume 21, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-2421-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-2421-2017
Research article
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09 May 2017
Research article |  | 09 May 2017

Characterizing the spatiotemporal variability of groundwater levels of alluvial aquifers in different settings using drought indices

Johannes Christoph Haas and Steffen Birk

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We show that the variability of groundwater levels within an Alpine river valley is more strongly affected by human impacts on rivers than by extreme events in precipitation. The influence of precipitation is found to be more pronounced in the shallow wells of the Alpine foreland. Groundwater levels, river stages and precipitation behave more similar under drought than under flood conditions and generally exhibit a tendency towards more similar behavior in the most recent decade.