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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-249-2020
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-249-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Research article
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16 Jan 2020
Research article |
| 16 Jan 2020
| 16 Jan 2020
A multi-environmental tracer study to determine groundwater residence times and recharge in a structurally complex multi-aquifer system
Cornelia Wilske
Department of Catchment Hydrology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Halle (Saale), 06120, Germany
CSIRO Land and Water, Urrbrae, South Australia, 5064, Australia
Axel Suckow
CSIRO Land and Water, Urrbrae, South Australia, 5064, Australia
Ulf Mallast
Department of Catchment Hydrology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Halle (Saale), 06120, Germany
Christiane Meier
Umweltbundesamt (UBA), Dessau-Roßlau, 06844, Germany
Silke Merchel
Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Dresden, 01328, Germany
Broder Merkel
Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, 09599, Germany
Stefan Pavetich
Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Dresden, 01328, Germany
Department of Nuclear Physics, Research School of Physics and
Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2609, Australia
Tino Rödiger
Department of Computational Hydrosystems, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, 04318, Germany
Georg Rugel
Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Dresden, 01328, Germany
Agnes Sachse
Department of Computational Hydrosystems, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, 04318, Germany
Stephan M. Weise
Department of Catchment Hydrology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Halle (Saale), 06120, Germany
Christian Siebert
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Catchment Hydrology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Halle (Saale), 06120, Germany
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- Predicting the impact and duration of persistent and mobile organic compounds in groundwater systems using a contaminant mass discharge approach M. Frederiksen et al.
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- Multiple isotope tracers reveal the sources of water sustaining ecologically and culturally significant springs, and their vulnerability to mining development A. Campbell et al.
- Using multi-environmental tracers to investigate groundwater residence times, age distribution and recharge processes in an arid intermountain basin-fill aquifer D. Huo & G. Cao
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- Characterization of the highly fractured zone at the Grimsel Test Site based on hydraulic tomography L. Ringel et al.
- Controls on the 36Cl/Cl input ratio of paleo-groundwater in arid environments: New evidence from 81Kr/Kr data R. Ram et al.
- Estimation of Groundwater Residence Time Using Radiocarbon and Stable Isotope Ratio in Dissolved Inorganic Carbon and Soil CO2 R. Agrawal et al.
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Short summary
Despite feeding several million people, the flow system and inter-aquifer communication within one of the major aquifer systems in Israel and the West Bank is still poorly understood. Applying a combination of inorganic elements, anthropogenic organic trace substances and classical environmental age-dating tracers like 3H, CFCs, SF6 and 36Cl / Cl, groundwater flow patterns, mixing end-members, transport times and recharge estimates have been obtained despite very limited data.
Despite feeding several million people, the flow system and inter-aquifer communication within...
