Simulation of groundwater age distributions

Water Resources Research

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 3271-3281

  Varni, Marcelo ^a   Carrera, Jesús ^b  

^a Instituto de Hidrologia de Llanuras   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER; DATING METHOD; GROUNDWATER; MEASUREMENT METHOD; TRANSIENT FLOW;

AQUIFERS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY;

CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; HETEROGENEOUS AQUIFERS; HIGHER ORDER MOMENTS; HIGHER-ORDER APPROXIMATION; MEASUREMENT PROCEDURES; SECOND-ORDER CORRECTION; THIRD ORDER APPROXIMATIONS; TRANSIENT FLOW CONDITIONS;

RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0032408454     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98WR02536     Document Type: Article

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