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Mono Lake Case Study

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Jesse Lawler GEOL 4220 LAB #1 Water Budget for Mono Lake, California 1. The water budget for a closed basin such as Mono lake can be generally described as: (rainfall + stream runoff + groundwater flow) - (evaporation + usage). Since it is difficult or impossible to accurately measure, groundwater flow can be expressed as equal to the difference between the actual measured storage of the lake and the calculated storage using: groundwater flow=actual measured storage - ((rainfall + stream runoff)-(evaporation + usage)). The largest contributor to the system is stream discharge since it is rainfall collected over a much larger area than the lake itself. This runoff is by far the largest contributor to the system. Groundwater flow is the second

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