Infiltration and groundwater recharge. Tritium: a direct probe

Technical Report · Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 1981

OSTI ID:5894936

Koob, R D

The objective was to evaluate the groundwater recharge rate on the Falkirk mining site in western North Dakota. Thornthwaite's water balance method was used. This method uses mean monthly temperatures to estimate potential evapotranspiration. Thornthwaite's method was judged to provide sufficiently accurate estimates of evapotranspiration to allow calculation of groundwater recharge rates given precipitation and runoff data. This judgment was made by comparing Thornthwaite's method with the more comprehensive treatments of Jensen and Haise and the modified Penman method. All methods showed potential evapotranspiration to be greater than mean monthly precipitation during the summer months.

• Research Organization: North Dakota State Univ., Fargo (USA). Dept. of Chemistry
• OSTI ID: 5894936
• Report Number(s): PB-83-182097
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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CALCULATION METHODS
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EVAPORATION
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RUNOFF
TRITIUM
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ODD-EVEN NUCLEI
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PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS
RADIOISOTOPES
UNDERGROUND FACILITIES
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