World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2020
Assessing the Effects of Climate Variability on Groundwater in Northern India
Publication: World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2020: Groundwater, Sustainability, Hydro-Climate/Climate Change, and Environmental Engineering
ABSTRACT
Groundwater is one of the important hydrological cycles that has a major role in balancing the ecosystem. The drastic change in climate in the twenty-first century has adversely affected the groundwater storage (GWS), later the hydrological cycle. The limited availability of groundwater data poses difficulty to investigate the effects of changing the climate on GWS. This research addressed the impact of climate variability in GWS variability in Northern India. The underlying goal was to assess the relationship between GWS and climate variability. Here, El Niño-Southern oscillation (ENSO) was used as an indicator of long-term climate change which can be categorized into three climatic phases—El Niño, La Niña, and neutral phases. Gravity recovery and climate experiment (GRACE) derived GWS anomaly was calculated to understand groundwater temporal variability as an effect of ENSO phases. Pearson correlation analysis was done to assess the relationship between GWS, precipitation, and ENSO. A significant positive correlation was observed between precipitation, GWS, and ENSO. A decreasing trend in GWSA was observed. Increased storage during La Niña and relatively less groundwater storage during El Nino were observed. This study highlights the research gap between GWS and climate variability. A better understanding of the climatological effect on GWS might be more useful to water managers in addressing the complex issues related to groundwater management.
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World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2020: Groundwater, Sustainability, Hydro-Climate/Climate Change, and Environmental Engineering
Pages: 41 - 52
Editors: Sajjad Ahmad, Ph.D., and Regan Murray, Ph.D.
ISBN (Online): 978-0-7844-8296-4
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Published online: May 14, 2020
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