Analysis of the Cape Cod tracer data

Water Resources Research

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-11

  Ezzedine, Souheil ^a,b   Rubin, Yoram ^a  

^a 109 McLaughlin Hall   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION; PLUMES; POROUS MEDIA; TRACERS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

CAPE COD TEST; DISPERSION; MACRODISPERSION; PLUME; RECHARGE; TRACER DATA;

USA, MASSACHUSETTS, CAPE COD;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

BREAK THROUGH CURVE; CONCENTRATION MEASUREMENT; EXPECTED VALUES; FITTING OF PARAMETERS; MACRODISPERSION; PREDICTIVE POWER; SPATIAL CORRELATION STRUCTURES; TRANSPORT EQUATION;

WATER RESOURCES;

EID: 0030621221     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96WR02586     Document Type: Article

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