Articles | Volume 24, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-887-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-887-2020
Research article
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26 Feb 2020
Research article |  | 26 Feb 2020

Field-based estimation and modelling of distributed groundwater recharge in a Mediterranean karst catchment, Wadi Natuf, West Bank

Clemens Messerschmid, Martin Sauter, and Jens Lange

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Recharge assessment in the shared transboundary Western Aquifer Basin is highly relevant, scientifically as well as hydropolitically (in Israeli–Palestinian water negotiations). Our unique combination of field-measured soil characteristics and soil moisture time series with soil moisture saturation excess modelling provides a new basis for the spatial differentiation of formation-specific groundwater recharge (at any scale), applicable also in other previously ungauged basins around the world.
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