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Redressing the balance: quantifying net intercatchment groundwater flows
Laurène Bouaziz
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Water Resources Section, Faculty of Civil Engineering and
Geosciences, Delft University of Technology, P.O. Box 5048, 2600 GA Delft,
the Netherlands
Department Catchment and Urban Hydrology,
Deltares, Boussinesqweg 1, 2629 HV Delft, the Netherlands
Albrecht Weerts
Department Catchment and Urban Hydrology,
Deltares, Boussinesqweg 1, 2629 HV Delft, the Netherlands
Hydrology and Quantitative Water Management Group, Department of
Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands
Jaap Schellekens
VanderSat, Wilhelminastraat 43A, 2011 VK Haarlem, the Netherlands
Eric Sprokkereef
Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, Zuiderwagenplein
2, 8224 AD Lelystad, the Netherlands
Jasper Stam
Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, Zuiderwagenplein
2, 8224 AD Lelystad, the Netherlands
Hubert Savenije
Water Resources Section, Faculty of Civil Engineering and
Geosciences, Delft University of Technology, P.O. Box 5048, 2600 GA Delft,
the Netherlands
Markus Hrachowitz
Water Resources Section, Faculty of Civil Engineering and
Geosciences, Delft University of Technology, P.O. Box 5048, 2600 GA Delft,
the Netherlands
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Short summary
We quantify net intercatchment groundwater flows in the Meuse basin in a complementary three-step approach through (1) water budget accounting, (2) testing a set of conceptual hydrological models and (3) evaluating against remote sensing actual evaporation data. We show that net intercatchment groundwater flows can make up as much as 25 % of mean annual precipitation in the headwaters and should therefore be accounted for in conceptual models to prevent overestimating actual evaporation rates.
We quantify net intercatchment groundwater flows in the Meuse basin in a complementary...
