Design of a piezometer network for estimation of the sample variogram of the hydraulic gradient: The role of the instrument

Water Resources Research

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 2489-2494

  Conwell, P M ^a   Silliman, S E ^a   Zheng, L ^a  

^a University of Notre Dame   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDRAULIC GRADIENT; NETWORK DESIGN; PIEZOMETER; VARIOGRAM;

DESIGN;

GEOMETRIC PATTERNS; HYDRAULIC GRADIENTS; MEASUREMENT INSTRUMENTS; SAMPLING EFFORTS; SAMPLING NETWORK; SAMPLING STRATEGIES; SPATIAL STATISTICS; THREE CATEGORIES;

SAMPLING;

EID: 0030693115     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97WR01703     Document Type: Article

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