The role of the unsaturated zone in artificial recharge at San Gorgonio pass, California

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 763-774

  Flint, Alan L ^a   Ellett, Kevin M ^a,b  

^a United States surGeological Survey   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL RECHARGE; CALIFORNIA; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; FIELD EXPERIMENT; FIELD MEASUREMENT; HORIZONTAL FLOWS; LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS; LAND SURFACE; NUMERICAL MODELING; NUMERICAL MODELS; PERMEABLE SOILS; SATURATED ZONE; SOIL PROPERTY; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; SURFACE SPREADING; UNSATURATED ZONE; WATER TABLES;

AQUIFERS; EXPERIMENTS; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; NUMERICAL METHODS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

SOIL SURVEYS;

EID: 42549135174     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2004.0763     Document Type: Article

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