Traditional analysis of aquifer tests: Comparing apples to oranges?

Water Resources Research

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1-12

  Wu, Cheng Mau ^a   Yeh, Tian Chyi J ^b   Zhu, Junfeng ^b,c   Tim, Hau Lee ^a   Hsu, Nien Sheng ^a   Chen, Chu Hui ^c   Sancho, Albert Folch ^d  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^d UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; WATER WELLS;

AQUIFER TESTS; FIRST-ORDER CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GAUSSIAN RANDOM T AND S FIELDS; JACOB'S APPROXIMATE SOLUTION;

AQUIFERS;

AQUIFER; DRAWDOWN; HETEROGENEITY; NUMERICAL METHOD; PERMEABILITY; TRANSMISSIVITY; WELL TESTING;

EID: 23944505336     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004WR003717     Document Type: Article

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