Spatial separation of groundwater flow paths from a multi-flow system by a simple mixing model using stable isotopes of oxygen and hydrogen as natural tracers

Water Resources Research

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Nakaya, Shinji ^a   Uesugi, Kenji ^a   Motodate, Yusuke ^a   Ohmiya, Isao ^a   Komiya, Hiroyuki ^a   Masuda, Harue ^b   Kusakabe, Minoru ^c  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^c OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXING; MULTIPHASE FLOW;

GROUNDWATER SYSTEM; MIXING MODEL;

GROUNDWATER FLOW;

GROUNDWATER FLOW; ISOTOPES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXING; MULTIPHASE FLOW;

FLOW PATTERN; FLOW VELOCITY; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDROGEN ISOTOPE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; INVERSE ANALYSIS; MIXING; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; STABLE ISOTOPE; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM; TRACER;

ASIA; CHUBU; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; MATSUMOTO; MATSUMOTO BASIN; NAGANO;

EID: 35848935636     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006WR005059     Document Type: Article

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