Potential of electrical resistivity tomography to infer aquifer transport characteristics from tracer studies: A synthetic case study

Water Resources Research

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1-23

  Vanderborght, Jan ^a   Kemna, Andreas ^a   Hardelauf, Horst ^a   Vereecken, Harry ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DISPERSIONS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPATIAL VARIABLES CONTROL; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY TOMOGRAPHY (ERT); SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL DATA; STOCHASTIC FLOW;

AQUIFERS;

AQUIFER; BREAKTHROUGH CURVE; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; TOMOGRAPHY; TRACER;

EID: 22444444119     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004WR003774     Document Type: Article

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