Equivalent vadose zone steady state flow: An assessment of its capability to predict transport in a realistic combined vadose zone-groundwater flow system

Water Resources Research

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2008, Pages

  Russo, David ^a   Fiori, Aldo ^b  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^b ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; ARID REGIONS; CRYSTALLINE ROCKS; EQUIVALENCE CLASSES; FILMS; FLOW OF WATER; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULICS; HYDROGEOLOGY; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; TEXTURES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TRANSITION FLOW; UNDERGROUND RESERVOIRS;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; BREAKTHROUGH CURVES; CONTROL PLANES; GROUNDWATER FLOW SYSTEMS; HETEROGENEOUS SOILS; HUMID REGIONS; HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; IRRIGATED CROPS; SEMIARID REGIONS; SOIL SURFACES; SOIL TEXTURES; SOLUTE PLUMES; STANDARD DEVIATIONS; STEADY STATE INFLUXES; STEADY STATES; STEADY-STATE FLOWS; SUMMER PRECIPITATIONS; SURFACE ZONES; TEMPORAL FLUCTUATIONS; TIME PERIODS; TRANSIENT FLOWS; TRAVEL TIMES; VADOSE ZONE FLOWS; VADOSE ZONES; WATER FLUXES; WATER TABLES;

SOILS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; FLOW MODELING; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; PREDICTION; STEADY FLOW; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; TRANSIENT FLOW; VADOSE ZONE; WATER FLOW;

EID: 55249089746     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007WR006170     Document Type: Article

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