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Groundwater recharge from heavy rainfall in the southwestern Lake Chad Basin: evidence from isotopic observations

Goni, IB; Taylor, RG; Favreau, G; Shamsudduha, M; Nazoumou, Y; Ngatcha, BN; (2021) Groundwater recharge from heavy rainfall in the southwestern Lake Chad Basin: evidence from isotopic observations. Hydrological Sciences Journal 10.1080/02626667.2021.1937630. (In press). Green open access

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Abstract

We examine groundwater recharge processes and their relationship to rainfall intensity in the semi-arid, southwestern Lake Chad Basin of Nigeria using a newly compiled database of stable isotope data (δ2H, δ18O) from groundwater and rainfall. δ18O signatures in groundwater proximate to surface waters are enriched in 18O relative to regional rainfall and trace focused groundwater recharge from evaporated waters via ephemeral river discharge and Lake Chad; groundwater remote from river channels is comparatively depleted and associated with diffuse recharge, often via sand dunes. Stable isotope ratios of O and H (δ2H, δ18O) in groundwater samples regress to a value along the local meteoric waterline that is depleted relative to weighted mean composition of rainfall, consistent with rainfall exceeding the 60th percentile of monthly precipitation intensity. The observed bias in groundwater recharge to heavy monthly rainfall suggests that the intensification of tropical rainfall under global warming favours groundwater recharge in this basin.

Type: Article
Title: Groundwater recharge from heavy rainfall in the southwestern Lake Chad Basin: evidence from isotopic observations
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1080/02626667.2021.1937630
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2021.1937630
Language: English
Additional information: © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Keywords: groundwater; recharge; rainfall; stable isotope ratios; Chad Basin
UCL classification: UCL
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10131672
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