Characterization of mixing and dilution in heterogeneous aquifers by means of local temporal moments

Water Resources Research

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1221-1236

  Cirpka, Olaf A ^a   Kitanidis, Peter K ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER; BREAKTHROUGH CURVE; DILUTION; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; MIXING; TRACER;

EID: 0034107154     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999WR900354     Document Type: Article

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