Probe for measuring groundwater velocity at the centimeter scale

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 41, Issue 24, 2007, Pages 8453-8458

  Labaky, W ^a   Devlin, J F ^b   Gillham, R W ^c  

^a SCHLUMBERGER   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROBES; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

GROUNDWATER VELOCITY; VELOCITY ESTIMATION;

GROUNDWATER FLOW;

GROUND WATER;

GROUNDWATER FLOW; PROBES; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DATA INTERPRETATION; FLOW VELOCITY; GROUNDWATER FLOW; LABORATORY METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; POROUS MEDIUM; PROBE; TRAVEL TIME;

ARTICLE; FLOW RATE; LABORATORY TEST; MEASUREMENT; MECHANICAL PROBE; MODEL; POINT VELOCITY PROBE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION;

MOLECULAR PROBES; WATER;

EID: 37249068101     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es0716047     Document Type: Article

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