TY - JOUR
T1 - Modeling Groundwater Depletion at Regional and Global Scales: Present State and Future Prospects
AU - Wada, Yoshihide
N1 - Generated from Scopus record by KAUST IRTS on 2023-09-18
PY - 2016/3/1
Y1 - 2016/3/1
N2 - Except for frozen water in ice and glaciers, groundwater is the world’s largest distributed store of freshwater and has strategic importance to global food and water security. In this paper, the most recent advances quantifying groundwater depletion (GWD) are comprehensively reviewed. This paper critically evaluates the recently advanced modeling approaches estimating GWD at regional and global scales, and the evidence of feedbacks to the Earth system including sea-level rise associated with GWD. Finally, critical challenges and opportunities in the use of groundwater are identified for the adaption to growing food demand and uncertain climate.
AB - Except for frozen water in ice and glaciers, groundwater is the world’s largest distributed store of freshwater and has strategic importance to global food and water security. In this paper, the most recent advances quantifying groundwater depletion (GWD) are comprehensively reviewed. This paper critically evaluates the recently advanced modeling approaches estimating GWD at regional and global scales, and the evidence of feedbacks to the Earth system including sea-level rise associated with GWD. Finally, critical challenges and opportunities in the use of groundwater are identified for the adaption to growing food demand and uncertain climate.
UR - http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10712-015-9347-x
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84961158911&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s10712-015-9347-x
DO - 10.1007/s10712-015-9347-x
M3 - Article
SN - 0169-3298
VL - 37
SP - 419
EP - 451
JO - Surveys in Geophysics
JF - Surveys in Geophysics
IS - 2
ER -
