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Quantitative Assessment of Groundwater and Surface Water Interactions in the Hailiutu River Basin, Erdos Plateau, China

By Zhi Yang Copyright 2018
170 Pages
by CRC Press

170 Pages
by CRC Press

This study presents a multi-disciplinary approach for investigating the interactions between groundwater and surface water in the semi-arid Hailiutu catchment in the Erdos Plateau, Northwest China. The study consists of statistical detection of river flow regime shifts at the basin level; multiple in-situ measurements for quantifying groundwater discharges using hydraulic, hydrochemical and... Read more

1. Introduction
1.1 Background
1.2 Research objectives and approach
1.3 Innovation and challenge
1.4 Thesis outline

2. The flow regime shift in Hailiutu River
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Material and methods
2.3 Results and discussion
2.4 Conclusion

3. A multi-method approach to quantify groundwater/surface water interactions
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Material and methods
3.3 Results and discussion
3.4 Conclusion

4. Groundwater-surface water interactions under different land use scenarios
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Materials and methods
4.3 Results
4.4 Conclusion

5. Groundwater and surface water interactions and impacts of human activities in the Hailiutu Catchment, Northwest China
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Materials and methods
5.3 Results
5.4 Discussion
5.5 Conclusion

6 Conclusions, outlook and future research
6.1 Conclusions
6.2 Outlook and future research

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Biography

Zhi Yang was born in 1974 in Anhui Province, China. He graduated from the Hefei University of Technology, China with a BSc degree in Environmental Engineering in 1996. He participated in the MSc programme Hydrology and Water Resources from 2002 to 2004 at UNESCO-IHE, Delft, The Netherlands. In December 2009, he entered the PhD programme at UNESCO-IHE (now called IHE Delft) in cooperation with China University of Geosciences (Beijing). He is working at the Institute of the Huai River Water Resources Protection as an environmental impact assessment consultant.