A comparison of seven geostatistically based inverse approaches to estimate transmissivities for modeling advective transport by groundwater flow

Water Resources Research

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1373-1413

  Zimmerman, D A ^a   De Marsily, G ^b   Gotway, C A ^c,r   Marietta, M G ^d   Axness, C L ^d   Beauheim, R L ^d   Bras, R L ^e,q   Carrera, J ^f   Dagan, G ^g   Davies, P B ^d   Gallegos, D P ^d   Galli, A ^h   Gomez Hernandez J ⁱ   Grindrod, P ^j   Gutjahr, A L ^k   Kitanidis, P K ^l,s   Lavenue, A M ^m   McLaughlin, D ^e   Neuman, S P ⁿ   RamaRao, B S ^m   Ravenne, C ^o   Rubin, Y ^p,t   more..

^a GRAM Incorporated   (United States)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^d SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^g TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^h PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

ⁱ UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^j Dynamical Systems Group   (United Kingdom)

^k NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^l STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^m Duke Engineering and Services   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^o IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES   (France)

^p UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^q Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^r NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^s Stanford University   (United States)

^t 109 McLaughlin Hall   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FORECASTING; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; ITERATIVE METHODS; LINEARIZATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; PUMPING PLANTS; TIME VARYING CONTROL SYSTEMS; TRAVEL TIME;

ACCURACY AND PRECISION; AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION; AQUIFER TRANSMISSIVITY; HYDROGEOLOGIC PROPERTIES; PROBABILISTIC FORECASTS; SEQUENTIAL SELF-CALIBRATION; TRANSIENT INFORMATION; TRAVEL TIME PREDICTION;

INVERSE PROBLEMS;

EID: 0031748188     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98WR00003     Document Type: Article

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