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Simulating Recharge In A Wisconsin Watershed: The Effect Of Sub Annual Precipitation Patterns, Alice Egan
Simulating Recharge In A Wisconsin Watershed: The Effect Of Sub Annual Precipitation Patterns, Alice Egan
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A watershed, the Prairie River in north-central Wisconsin was used to analyze why the same annual precipitation generates variable annual recharge rates. Global Climate Models (GCMs) with three greenhouse gas emission scenarios (B1, A1B and A2) for two time series 2047-2065 and 2082-2100 were used to examine the annual and monthly differences between the Prairie River watershed future projections and the Prairie River watershed historical record, 1954-2009. The USGS soil water balance (SWB) model was used to calculate recharge.
In the Prairie River watershed, there is a strong correlation (R²=0.84) between growing season recharge and growing season precipitation, and there …