Terrestrial water load and groundwater fluctuation in the Bengal Basin

Abstract Groundwater-level fluctuations represent hydraulic responses to changes in groundwater storage due to aquifer recharge and drainage as well as to changes in stress that include water mass loading and unloading above the aquifer surface. The latter ‘poroelastic’ response of confined aquifers...

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Main Authors: W. G. Burgess, M. Shamsudduha, R. G. Taylor, A. Zahid, K. M. Ahmed, A. Mukherjee, D. J. Lapworth, V. F. Bense
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017-06-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-04159-w