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An estimation of groundwater storage variations from GRACE gravity satellites in the Heihe River Basin, northwestern China |
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| Authors: | YanPing Cao ZhuoTong Nan XingLin Hu |
| Institution: | 1. Institute of Arid Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration, Lanzhou, Gansu 730020, China 2. Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, China 3. Hydrology and Water Resources Bureau of Gansu Province, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, China |
| Abstract: | There are only limited surface water resources available in the Heihe River Basin (HRB), a typical inland river basin in the arid region of northwestern China, where groundwater overexploitation is a serious problem. Groundwater has become one of main resources of fresh water in the HRB. In this paper, temporal and spatial variations of groundwater in the HRB are estimated by the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites. Our analysis shows that groundwater storage in the HRB reaches its highest in the summer of 2005, and then begins to decline in the following years and reaches steady status in 2008. Spatially, groundwater shows a decline in the upper HRB in the first two years and a slight increase in the following years, while this phenomenon is reversed in the middle HRB where groundwater slightly increases in 2005 and then declines in the following three years. In the lower HRB, GRACE detects a continual increase in the full six-year period. This approach is proven successful when employed in the HRB and thus offers a new insight into monitoring groundwater variations in a river basin with limited or even without any observed data. |
| Keywords: | GRACE gravity satellites groundwater Heihe River Basin terrestrial water storage |
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