Type curve interpretation of late-time pumping test data in randomly heterogeneous aquifers

Water Resources Research

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2007, Pages

  Neuman, Shlomo P ^a   Blattstein, Ayelet ^a,b   Riva, Monica ^c   Tartakovsky, Daniel M ^d   Guadagnini, Alberto ^c   Ptak, Thomas ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b Phillips Research Center 224GB   (United States)

^c POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; GRAPHIC METHODS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

QUASI-STEADY STATE; TRANSMISSIVITY STATISTICS;

AQUIFERS;

AQUIFERS; CURVE FITTING; GRAPHIC METHODS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

AQUIFER; CORRELATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; GAUSSIAN METHOD; GEOSTATISTICS; GRAPHICAL METHOD; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; PUMPING; SPATIAL VARIATION; TRANSMISSIVITY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

EID: 36749004941     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007WR005871     Document Type: Article

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