The DOI matches its Crossref record; 66 of the 66 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
River basins as groundwater exporters and importers: Implications for water cycle and climate modeling
Abstract
The groundwater reservoir and its interaction with surface water facilitate lateral transport of continental water and energy. Current climate models do not account for long‐distance groundwater flow between model cells but route the atmospheric surplus (precipitation (P) minus evapotranspiration (ET)) directly to stream discharge within a model grid cell. We ask how much water exits a river basin without ever passing through its surface outlet? What are the climatologic and geologic factors influencing this flux? To answer these questions, a separation of groundwater flow from river flow is necessary. We use the ratio of stream discharge (Qr) to basin recharge (R = P − ET) for this purpose; where Qr:R 1, a basin is considered a groundwater importer. Here Qr is obtained from 39 years of U.S. Geological Survey Hydro‐Climatic Data Network observed stream discharge from 1555 basins across the continental United States, and R (P − ET) is derived from 50 years of hydrologic simulation by the Variable Infiltration Capacity model. It was found that the Qr:R ratio deviates significantly from 1 across the continent. Detailed investigations of individual basins suggest that the deviations are primarily a function of geology, while climate and basin scale influence the magnitude of these deviations. Further, a marked incongruity between the surface and groundwater flow directions is apparent, suggesting that surface drainage is only partially indicative of subsurface flow regimes. The a…
Overview
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
In the citing paper
“The groundwater near basin floors, therefore, tends to be dominated by long transit times (Schaller & Fan,2009).”
From Relic Groundwater and Prolonged Drought Confound Interpretations of Water Sustainability and Lithium Extraction in Arid Lands (2022) · cites this paper as Schaller & Fan,2009
Citations
Cites
A Comprehensive Mass Flux Scheme for Cumulus Parameterization in Large-Scale Models
Tiedtke, M. (1989) · Monthly Weather Review · doi:10.1175/1520-0493(1989)117 · Cited by 3,655
Regions of Strong Coupling Between Soil Moisture and Precipitation
Koster, R. D., Dirmeyer, P. A., Guo, Z., Bonan, G. B., Chan, E., Cox, P. M., Gordon, C. T., Kanae, S., Kowalczyk, E., Lawrence, D. M., et al. (2004) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1100217 · Cited by 2,880
A theoretical analysis of groundwater flow in small drainage basins
Tóth, J. (1963) · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · doi:10.1029/jz068i016p04795 · Cited by 1,684
Floods, channel change, and the hyporheic zone
Wondzell, S. M., & Swanson, F. J. (1999) · Water Resources Research · doi:10.1029/1998wr900047 · Cited by 1,435
Partial Area Contributions to Storm Runoff in a Small New England Watershed
Dunne, T., & Black, R. D. (1970) · Water Resources Research · doi:10.1029/wr006i005p01296 · Cited by 1,191
RC (1973) · TESOL Quarterly · doi:10.2307/3585873 · Cited by 1,076
Slomp, C. P., & Cappellen, P. V. (2004) · Journal of Hydrology · doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2004.02.018 · Cited by 946
An Experimental Investigation of Runoff Production in Permeable Soils
Dunne, T., & Black, R. D. (1970) · Water Resources Research · doi:10.1029/wr006i002p00478 · Cited by 766
A Soil Moisture–Rainfall Feedback Mechanism: 1. Theory and observations
Eltahir, E. A. B. (1998) · Water Resources Research · doi:10.1029/97wr03499 · Cited by 683
Niu, G., Yang, Z., Dickinson, R. E., Gulden, L. E., & Su, H. (2007) · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · doi:10.1029/2006jd007522 · Cited by 637
Research works printed but not linked: 1
- U.S. Geological Survey, 1990, Ground Water Atlas of the United States
Cited by
Sorted by citations
Ground water and climate change
Taylor, R. G., Scanlon, B. R., Döll, P., Rodell, M., van Beek, R., Wada, Y., Longuevergne, L., Leblanc, M. J., Famiglietti, J. S., Edmunds, M., et al. (2012) · Nature Climate Change · doi:10.1038/nclimate1744 · Cited by 2,608
Self-citationHillslope Hydrology in Global Change Research and Earth System Modeling
Fan, Y., Clark, M., Lawrence, D. M., Swenson, S. C., Band, L. E., Brantley, S. L., Brooks, P. D., Dietrich, W. E., Flores, A. N., Grant, G. E., et al. (2019) · Water Resources Research · doi:10.1029/2018wr023903 · Cited by 660
Self-citationGlobal patterns and dynamics of climate–groundwater interactions
Cuthbert, M. O., Gleeson, T., Moosdorf, N., Befus, K. M., Schneider, A., Hartmann, J., & Lehner, B. (2019) · Nature Climate Change · doi:10.1038/s41558-018-0386-4 · Cited by 552
Luijendijk, E., Gleeson, T., & Moosdorf, N. (2020) · Nature Communications · doi:10.1038/s41467-020-15064-8 · Cited by 374
Groundwater system and climate change: Present status and future considerations
Amanambu, A. C., Obarein, O. A., Mossa, J., Li, L., Ayeni, S. S., Balogun, O., Oyebamiji, A., & Ochege, F. U. (2020) · Journal of Hydrology · doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125163 · Cited by 345
Metadata
- Authors
- Schaller, M. F., & Fan, Y.
- Affiliations
- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (US)
- Venue
- Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
- Publisher
- American Geophysical Union (AGU)
- Published
- 2009-02-18
- Volume
- 114
- Issue
- D4
- ISSN
- 0148-0227 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1986962256
- Cited by
- 222
- References
- 66
- Citations by year
- 2026: 10 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 18 · 2023: 17 · 2022: 40 · 2021: 25 · 2020: 21 · 2019: 13 · 2018: 9 · 2017: 10 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 8 · 2014: 6 · 2013: 5 · 2012: 6
- FWCI
- 7.23
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Water Science and Technology › Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geochemistry and Petrology › Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Environmental Engineering › Groundwater flow and contamination studies
- Keywords
- groundwater flow, river basins, river discharge, water cycle modeling, climate modeling, groundwater-surface water interaction, Variable Infiltration Capacity model
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
