Estimating Transmissivity from the Water Level Fluctuations of a Sinusoidally Forced Well

Ground Water

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 855-860

  Mehnert, E ^a   Valocchi, A J ^b   Heidari, M ^a   Kapoor, S G ^c   Kumar, P ^b  

^a ILLINOIS STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c United States of America   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; GROUNDWATER FLOW; TIDES;

SINUSOIDALLY FORCED WELL; TRANSMISSIVITY;

WATER LEVELS;

EID: 0033331245     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.1999.tb01184.x     Document Type: Article

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