A soil-water-balance approach to quantify groundwater recharge from irrigated cropland in the North China Plain

Groundwater recharge from irrigated crop

Groundwater recharge from irrigated cropland in the North China Plain: case study of Luancheng County, Hebei Province, 1949–2000

✍ Eloise Kendy; Yongqiang Zhang; Changming Liu; Jinxia Wang; Tammo Steenhuis 📂 Article 📅 2004 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 225 KB 👁 2 views

## Abstract Effective management of limited water resources in the North China Plain requires reliable calculation of historical groundwater balances at local, sub‐watershed scales. These calculations typically are hindered by poorly constrained recharge estimates. Using a simple soil‐water balance