Temporal scaling of hydraulic head fluctuations: Nonstationary spectral analyses and numerical simulations

Water Resources Research

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1-10

  Zhang, You Kuan ^a   Li, Zhongwei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; FRACTALS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; RESERVOIRS (WATER); TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

COVARIANCE; FLOW MODELS; HYDRAULIC HEAD FLUCTUATIONS; TEMPORAL SCALING;

WATER ANALYSIS;

AQUIFER; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDRAULIC HEAD;

EID: 23944484433     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004WR003797     Document Type: Article

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