Importance of the Vadose Zone in Analyses of Unconfined Aquifer Tests

Ground Water

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 223-233

  Moench, Allen F ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; COMPOSITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRAINAGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRATIGRAPHY;

HYDRAULIC PARAMETERS; TIME VARYING DRAINAGE;

GROUNDWATER;

AQUIFER; DRAWDOWN; GROUNDWATER; UNSATURATED FLOW;

AQUIFER CHARACTERIZATION; DRAWDOWN; GROUNDWATER FLOW; UNCONFINED AQUIFER; VADOSE ZONE;

ARTICLE; PARTICLE SIZE; SEDIMENT; SOIL; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER FLOW; WATER SUPPLY;

GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PARTICLE SIZE; SOIL; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER SUPPLY;

CAPE COD; MASSACHUSETTS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

GADUS MORHUA;

EID: 1542320973     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2004.tb02669.x     Document Type: Article

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