Inverse modeling for seawater intrusion in coastal aquifers: Insights about parameter sensitivities, variances, correlations and estimation procedures derived from the Henry problem

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 439-457

  Sanz, Esteban ^a   Voss, Clifford I ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Covariance analysis; Inverse modeling; Network design; Seawater intrusion; Sensitivity; Variable density

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; COASTAL ZONES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; DENSITY OF LIQUIDS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; FRESHWATER INFLOW; HYPOTHETICAL COASTAL INTRUSION; INVERSE MODELING; VARIABLE-DENSITY FLOW; VARIABLE-DENSITY GROUNDWATER SYSTEM;

SALT WATER INTRUSION;

AQUIFER; COASTAL AQUIFER; MODELING; SEA WATER;

AQUIFER; COASTAL AQUIFER; MODELING; SEAWATER;

EID: 29444449786     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2005.05.014     Document Type: Article

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