A reassessment of the groundwater inverse problem

Water Resources Research

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1131-1161

  McLaughlin, Dennis ^a,c   Townley, Lloyd R ^b  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUID FLOW; GROUNDWATER; INVERSE PROBLEM;

EID: 0029667847     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96WR00160     Document Type: Review

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