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Recharge-Discharge Estimator Suite

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Crosbie, Russell ; O'Grady, Anthony ; Gow, Laura ; Davies, Philip ; Wilford, John ; Kilgour, Penny ; Leaney, Fred ; Jolly, Ian
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The Recharge-Discharge Estimation software suite provides water managers with valuable tools to estimate groundwater recharge and/or discharge in areas where no field based recharge or discharge studies have been undertaken. It is comprised of two stand-alone tools in the Microsoft Excel™ spreadsheet format, which when coupled with data that is usually readily available and/or accessible, provides recharge and discharge estimates using simple approximations. Australian spatial datasets for use with the Recharge-Discharge Estimator Suite spreadsheets are available via: http://www.ga.gov.au/metadata-gateway/metadata/record/83878. These data layers are provided as an ESRI® File Geodatabase.
Lineage: The recharge tool uses a decision-tree methodology that is implemented in the spreadsheet. It incorporates various parameters such as: average annual rainfall, evapotranspiration, soil/regolith and vegetation type, land use change, rainfall chloride flux, groundwater chloride concentration. The discharge tool uses a soil water balance approach decision-tree to estimate groundwater discharge and is implemented in the spreadsheet. It incorporates knowledge of the soil profile and regolith down to the watertable depth as well as parameters such as: rainfall, evaporation, leaf area index, depth to watertable, groundwater salinity. Please note that there are limitations associated with the use of these spreadsheets which include the: spreadsheets should only be used in data poor areas where the value of the groundwater resource does not warrant field studies, spreadsheets should not be used in irrigation areas because the methods do not account for the added difficulties associated with the wide range of crops and irrigation management, spreadsheets should not be used to estimate river recharge as they do not account for the complex surface water-groundwater interactions associated with this form of recharge, approach contained in the spreadsheets is specific to diffuse recharge and as such it should not be used in areas where preferential/localised recharge, due to surface water flow being a major part of the groundwater balance, is the dominant form of recharge.

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CLIMATE AND WEATHER Rainfall | Earth Sciences | GEOSCIENCES Hydrogeology | LAND Cover | Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience | Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience Not Elsewhere Classified | WATER Groundwater | WATER Hydrochemistry |

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