Tracer advection by steady groundwater flow in a stratified aquifer

Water Resources Research

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1051-1059

  Sposito, Garrison ^a,b   Weeks, Scott W ^a  

^a Univ of California   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; AQUIFER; GROUNDWATER; TRACER;

AQUIFER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; TRACER;

ADVECTION; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

ERGODIC BEHAVIOR; HETEROGENEOUS AQUIFERS; NONERGODICITY; SPATIAL CONCENTRATION; STEADY GROUNDWATER FLOWS; STOCHASTIC THEORIES; STREAMFUNCTIONS; SUBSURFACE HYDROLOGY;

AQUIFERS;

EID: 0031961590     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98WR00009     Document Type: Article

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