Geohydrology and evapotranspiration at Franklin Lake playa, Inyo County, California [electronic resource].

Published:: Washington, D.C. : United States. Dept. of the Interior, 1997.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
Physical Description:: 76 pages : digital, PDF file
Additional Creators:: United States. Department of the Interior and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information

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Franklin Lake playa is one of the principal discharge areas of the Furnace Creek Ranch-Alkali Flat ground-water-flow system in southern Nevada and adjacent California. Yucca Mountain, Nevada, located within this flow system, is being evaluated by the US Department of Energy to determine its suitability as a potential site for a high-level nuclear-waste repository. To assist the U.S. Department of Energy with its evaluation of the Yucca Mountain site, the US Geological Survey developed a parameter-estimation model of the Furnace Creek Ranch-Alkali Flat ground-water-flow system. Results from sensitivity analyses made using the parameter-estimation model indicated that simulated rates of evapotranspiration at Franklin Lake playa had the largest effect on the calculation of transmissivity values at Yucca Mountain of all the model-boundary conditions and, therefore, that evapotranspiration required careful definition.

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E 1.99:usgs-wsp--2377
usgs-wsp--2377

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Published through SciTech Connect.
12/31/1997.
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Czarnecki, J.B.
Geological Survey, Denver, CO (United States)

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