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Groundwater Evapotranspiration – Underestimated Role of Tree Transpiration and Bare Soil Evaporation in Groundwater Balances of Dry Lands

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Climate Change and its Effects on Water Resources

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This paper analyzes and emphasizes the importance of groundwater evapotranspiration (ETg) in groundwater balances. The ETg diminishes the net groundwater recharge that constrains groundwater flow and replenishment of groundwater resources. The ETg consists of two different components, groundwater transpiration (Tg) and groundwater evaporation (Eg), both not yet well identified in hydrogeology. The ETg values are the largest in dry locations with shallow groundwater table. The significance of the ETg however is the largest when its relative contribution to groundwater balance is high i.e. when its rate is comparable with groundwater recharge.

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  1. Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Maciek W. Lubczynski

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  1. Engineering Faculty, Department of Civil Engineering, Izmir Institute of Technology, Urla, 35430, Turkey

    Alper Baba

  2. Engineering Faculty, Department of Civil Engineering, Izmir Institute of Technology, Urla, 35430, Turkey

    Gökmen Tayfur

  3. Engineering Faculty, Department of Environmental Engineering, Dokuz Eylül University, Kaynaklar Campus, Buca, 35160, Turkey

    Orhan Gündüz

  4. University of Toronto, Military Trail 1265, Scarborough, M1C 1A4, Canada

    Ken W.F. Howard

  5. Denver Federal Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Lakewood, 80225, USA

    Michael J. Friedel

  6. Geophysics Centre of Evora, Department of Geosciences, University of Evora, Apartado 94, Evora, 7000-671, Portugal

    Antonio Chambel

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Lubczynski, M.W. (2011). Groundwater Evapotranspiration – Underestimated Role of Tree Transpiration and Bare Soil Evaporation in Groundwater Balances of Dry Lands. In: Baba, A., Tayfur, G., Gündüz, O., Howard, K., Friedel, M., Chambel, A. (eds) Climate Change and its Effects on Water Resources. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1143-3_21

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