On a test case for density-dependent groundwater flow and solute transport models: The salt lake problem

Water Resources Research

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 3607-3620

  Simmons, Craig T ^a   Narayan, Kumar A ^b   Wooding, Robin A ^b  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUNDWATER; MODELING; SALINE LAKE; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

EID: 0033461819     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999WR900254     Document Type: Article

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