Identifying discrete geologic structures that produce anomalous hydraulic response: An inverse modeling approach

Water Resources Research

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Ronayne, Michael J ^a   Gorelick, Steven M ^a   Caers, Jef ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEMS; CRITICAL PATH ANALYSIS; DATA STRUCTURES; ELASTIC MODULI; FLOW SIMULATION; FLUID MECHANICS; HYDRAULICS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANOMALOUS RESPONSE; AQUIFER TESTS; CHANNEL STRUCTURES; DYNAMIC FLOWS; FAN SYSTEMS; FLOODPLAIN DEPOSITS; GEOLOGIC STRUCTURES; GEOSTATISTICAL; GEOSTATISTICAL MODELLING; HYDRAULIC RESPONSES; INVERSE MODELING; INVERSE SOLUTIONS; LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY; OBSERVATION WELLS; SHORTEST PATHS; SUB-SURFACE FLOW;

MODEL STRUCTURES;

ALLUVIAL FAN; AQUIFER; FLOODPLAIN; FLOW MODELING; GEOSTATISTICS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; INVERSE ANALYSIS; PATH ANALYSIS; PERMEABILITY; PUMPING; SUBSURFACE FLOW;

EID: 53849105088     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007WR006635     Document Type: Article

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