“…When the captured chloride is flushed during rainfall events, it reaches the land surface and can infiltrate into the soil. Depending on vegetation type, canopy structure, height, age, density, distance from the forest edge, distance from the coast and meteorological conditions the presence of vegetation can result in an increase of the atmospheric chloride deposition ranging between 20% and 2200% (Parker, 1983;Ulrich, 1983;Beier and Gundersen, 1989;Lindberg et al, 1990;Peters, 1991;Granat and Hällgren, 1992;Stuyfzand, 1993;Neary and Gizyn, 1994;Crockford et al, 1996;Moreno et al, 2001;Erisman and Draaijers, 2003;Kauffman et al, 2003;Herrmann et al, 2006;Małek and Astel, 2008;Brecciaroli et al, 2012;Deng et al, 2013). While this effect has been fully recognised and studied in the fields of atmospheric science and forestry, it has not often been accounted for in the CMB method for groundwater recharge estimation.…”