Changes in paleo-groundwater levels revealed by water wells and their relationship with climate variations in imperial Southern China

• Chenyao Jiang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chenyao Jiang, Harry F. Lee

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Geography and Resource Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR, China, School of Geography, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China

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• Harry F. Lee ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chenyao Jiang, Harry F. Lee

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: harrylee@cuhk.edu.hk (HFL); jiaxin@njnu.edu.cn (XJ)

  Affiliation Department of Geography and Resource Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5415-7845

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• Xin Jia ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: harrylee@cuhk.edu.hk (HFL); jiaxin@njnu.edu.cn (XJ)

  Affiliations School of Geography, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China, Jiangsu Center for Collaborative Innovation in Geographical Information Resource Development and Application, Nanjing, China, Key Laboratory of Virtual Geographic Environment (Nanjing Normal University), Ministry of Education, Nanjing, China, Insitute of Environmental Archaeology, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China

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• Xinggong Kong

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliations School of Geography, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China, Jiangsu Center for Collaborative Innovation in Geographical Information Resource Development and Application, Nanjing, China, Key Laboratory of Virtual Geographic Environment (Nanjing Normal University), Ministry of Education, Nanjing, China

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