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Distributed estimation and analysis of precipitation recharge coefficient in strongly-exploited Beijing plain area, China

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The precipitation recharge coefficient (PRC), representing the amount of groundwater recharge from precipitation, is an important parameter for groundwater resources evaluation and numerical simulation. It was usually obtained from empirical knowledge and site experiments in the 1980s. However, the environmental settings have been greatly modified from that time due to land use change and groundwater over-pumping, especially in the Beijing plain area (BPA). This paper aims to estimate and analyze PRC of BPA with the distributed hydrological model and GIS for the year 2011 with similar annual precipitation as long-term mean. It is found that the recharge from vertical (precipitation + irrigation) and precipitation is 291.0 mm/yr and 233.7 mm/yr, respectively, which accounts for 38.6% and 36.6% of corresponding input water. The regional mean PRC is 0.366, which is a little different from the traditional map. However, it has a spatial variation ranging from –7.0% to 17.5% for various sub-regions. Since the vadose zone is now much thicker than the evaporation extinction depth, the land cover is regarded as the major dynamic factor that causes the variation of PRC in this area due to the difference of evapotranspiration rates. It is suggested that the negative impact of reforestation on groundwater quantity within BPA should be well investigated, because the PRC beneath forestland is the smallest among all land cover types.

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  1. College of Resources Environment and Tourism, Capital Normal University, Beijing, 100048, China

    Yun Pan & Huili Gong

  2. Beijing Institute of Hydrogeology and Engineering Geology, Beijing, 100195, China

    Ying Sun & Xinjuan Wang

  3. College of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, 100124, China

    Fei Ding

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Foundation item: Under the auspices of Beijing Natural Science Foundation (No. 8152012), National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 41101033, 41130744, 41171335).

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Pan, Y., Gong, H., Sun, Y. et al. Distributed estimation and analysis of precipitation recharge coefficient in strongly-exploited Beijing plain area, China. Chin. Geogr. Sci. 27, 88–96 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11769-016-0839-5

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