Stochastic inverse mapping of hydraulic conductivity and sorption partitioning coefficient fields conditioning on nonreactive and reactive tracer test data

Water Resources Research

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Huang, Hai ^a   Hu, Bill X ^b   Wen, Xian Huan ^c   Shirley, Craig ^b  

^a IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditioning; Heterogeneity; Inverse mapping; Stochastic

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; DATA REDUCTION; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SORPTION;

REACTIVE TRACERS; SORPTION PARTITIONING;

WATER RESOURCES;

COEFFICIENT; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; SORPTION; STOCHASTIC METHOD;

HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MAPPING; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; SORPTION; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 2542542849     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003WR002253     Document Type: Article

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