Journal of Groundwater Hydrology
Online ISSN : 2185-5943
Print ISSN : 0913-4182
ISSN-L : 0913-4182
Changes and Retrieval of Water Cycle
Application of the Groundwater Flow Analysis Models to Modeling of Hydrologic Cycle
Yasuhisa SAITOH
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1999 Volume 41 Issue 4 Pages 263-286

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Recently the word‘Water Cycle’has become a hot issue as a new approach to the environmental preservation. Some organization have already started discussing measures and taken actions to retrieve water cycle. When we discuss water cycle, it is often necessary to quantify and model it. Models of water cycle are usually the tank models with no consideration to hydrogeological conditions, which makes it easier to conduct a water balance simulation. However, we would not be able to have essential discussions on water cycle, if we just leave the hydrogeological conditions of a target groundwater basin. If these conditions are understood well enough and can be put into an equilibrium groundwater flow analysis model and the application is limited to dry season when the groundwater recharge, storage and flow are minimum, it will be a very convenient tool in solving water cycle problem. This paper presents the possibility of applying the groundwater flow analysis models to the evaluation of measures taken for water cycle retrieval.
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