Interpretation and inversion of low-frequency head observations

Water Resources Research

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Vasco, D W ^a   Karasaki, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CORRELATION METHODS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CONCEPTUAL MODELS; HYDRAULIC TOMOGRAPHY; PARAMETER SENSITIVITIES; RAYMOND FIELD SITE;

HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY;

COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CORRELATION METHODS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

BOREHOLE; FRACTURE ZONE; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDRAULIC HEAD; PERMEABILITY; WELL;

EID: 33745456779     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005WR004445     Document Type: Article

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