A full-Bayesian approach to parameter inference from tracer travel time moments and investigation of scale effects at the Cape Cod experimental site

Water Resources Research

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 159-171

  Woodbury, Allan D ^a   Rubin, Yoram ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUNDWATER; SCALE EFFECT; TRACER;

GROUNDWATER FLOW; SCALE EFFECT; TRACER; TRAVEL TIME;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033989533     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999WR900273     Document Type: Article

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