| Abstract: | It is generally recognized that the southern Arabian Peninsula has had two wet periods in the late Quaternary. To quantify "wet‘ a 28 000 year old capillary surface associated with a paleowater-table was mapped and used as a surrogate for the water table in a ground-water model. Analysis of this model suggests 1.4 mm year -1 of recharge is necessary to support the water table at the mapped elevations during the wet period. Climatic relations between rainfall and recharge in arid areas infer that annual rainfall during this wet period was approximately 200??50 mm year-1 or approximately five times the present rate. -Authors |
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| Citation Author: | Wood, W. W.; Imes, J. L. |
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| Citation Larger Work Title: | Journal of Hydrology |
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| Citation Search Results Text: | How wet is wet? Precipitation constraints on late Quaternary climate in the southern Arabian Peninsula; 1995; Article; Journal; Journal of Hydrology; Wood, W. W.; Imes, J. L. |
| Citation Start Page: | 263 |
| Citation Volume: | 164 |
| Citation Year: | 1995 |
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| Text: | How wet is wet? Precipitation constraints on late Quaternary climate in the southern Arabian Peninsula; 1995; Article; Journal; Journal of Hydrology; Wood, W. W.; Imes, J. L. |
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| Date Other: | Sun, 1 Jan 1995 00:00 -0600 |
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