Statistical and geostatistical features of streambed hydraulic conductivities in the Platte River, Nebraska

Environmental Geology

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 693-701

  Chen, Xunhong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Hydraulic conductivity; Permeameter test; Platte River; Streambed; Variogram models

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEDIMENTS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

PERMEAMETER TEST; PLATTE RIVER; STREAMBED; VARIOGRAM MODEL;

HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY;

GEOSTATISTICS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; STREAM BED;

NORTH AMERICA; PLATTE RIVER; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 27944464449     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-005-0007-1     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Bentall R (1971) Water supplies and the land - the Elkhorn River basin of Nebraska, Conservation and Survey Division Resource Atlas No. 1, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 51 p
2. Conover WJ (1980) Practical Nonparametric Statistics, 2nd edn. John Wiley& Sons, New York, p 493
3. Chen XH (2000) Measurement of streambed hydraulic conductivity and its anisotropy. Environmental Geology 39(12): 1317-1324
4. Chen XH, Chen X (2003) Sensitivity analysis and determination of streambed leakance and aquifer hydraulic properties. Journal of Hydrology (284): 270-284
5. Chen XH (2004) Streambed hydraulic conductivity for rivers in south-central Nebraska. Journal of the American Water Resource Association 40(3): 561-574
6. Gilbert RO (1987) Statistical Methods for Environmental Pollution Monitoring, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, p 320
7. Hutson SS, Barber NL, Kenny JF, Linsey KS, Lumia DS, Maupin MA (2004) Estimated Use of Water in the United States in 2000. U. S. Geological Survey Circular 1268, 46 p
8. Hvorslev MJ (1951) Time lag and soil permeability in ground water observations. Waterways Experiment Station, Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army Bulletin 36, Vicksburg, Mississippi, p 50
9. Kitanidis PK (1997) Introduction to Geostatistics, Applications in Hydrogeology, Cambridge University Press, p 249
10. Landon MK, Rus DL, Harvey FE (2001) Comparison of instream methods for measuring hydraulic conductivity in sandy streambeds. Ground Water 39(6): 870-885
11. Nguyen QM, Gilliland MW (1985) Soil, surface water, and groundwater characteristics of the Platte River and its aquifer in the vicinity of Grand Island's Platte River well field. Report prepared by Department of Civil Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Omaha Campus
12. Olea RA (1999) Geostatistics for Engineers and Earth Scientists. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston
13. Rus DL, McGuire VL, Zurbuchen BR, Zlotnik V (2001) Vertical profiles of streambed hydraulic conductivity determined using slug tests in central and western Nebraska. U. S. Geological Survey Water-resources Investigation Report 01-4212, 32 p
14. SAS Institute (2001) SAS/STAT, Version 8, 1999-2001, SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, USA
15. Webster R (1977) Spectral analysis of gilgai soil. Australian Journal of Soil Research 15, 191-204
16. Webster R, Oliver M (2000) Geostatistics for Environmental Scientists, John Wiley& Sons, LTD, New York, 271 p