Modeling hydraulic conductivity of a complex confining layer at various spatial scales

Water Resources Research

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 2369-2382

  Bierkens, Marc F P ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUND WATER;

CLASSIS; CONDUCTANCE; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MODEL; NETHERLANDS; SEDIMENT; SIMULATION; STATISTICS;

BOREHOLES; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MODELLING; SEDIMENT;

CONFINING LAYER; FLUID FLOW; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HETEROGENEITY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; SPATIAL VARIATION; STOCHASTIC ANALYSIS;

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 0029663919     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96WR01465     Document Type: Article

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