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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-249-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-249-2020
Research article
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16 Jan 2020
Research article |  | 16 Jan 2020

A multi-environmental tracer study to determine groundwater residence times and recharge in a structurally complex multi-aquifer system

Cornelia Wilske, Axel Suckow, Ulf Mallast, Christiane Meier, Silke Merchel, Broder Merkel, Stefan Pavetich, Tino Rödiger, Georg Rugel, Agnes Sachse, Stephan M. Weise, and Christian Siebert

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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.