Influence of intensive agriculture and geological heterogeneity  on the recharge of an arid aquifer system (Saq–Ram,  Arabian Peninsula) inferred from GRACE data

Seraphin, Pierre; Gonçalvès, Julio; Hamelin, Bruno; Stieglitz, Thomas; Deschamps, Pierre

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Influence of intensive agriculture and geological heterogeneity on the recharge of an arid aquifer system (Saq–Ram, Arabian Peninsula) inferred from GRACE data

Pierre Seraphin, Julio Gonçalvès, Bruno Hamelin, Thomas Stieglitz, and Pierre Deschamps

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