Regional groundwater flow in mountainous terrain: Three-dimensional simulations of topographic and hydrogeologic controls

Water Resources Research

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Gleeson, Tom ^a   Manning, Andrew H ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW OF WATER; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULICS; HYDROGEOLOGY; LANDFORMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; UNDERGROUND RESERVOIRS;

DRAINAGE NETWORKS; FLOW SYSTEMS; GEOMATIC DATUMS; GROUNDWATER SYSTEMS; HEADWATER STREAMS; HIGH WATERS; HIGHLY NONLINEAR; LOCAL FLOWS; MOUNTAIN RIDGES; MOUNTAINOUS TERRAINS; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; POTENTIALLY POWERFUL; REGIONAL GROUNDWATERS; TOPOGRAPHIC GRADIENTS; WATER TABLE ELEVATIONS; WATER TABLES;

AQUIFERS;

GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; TERRAIN; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; WATER TABLE;

EID: 57149096054     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR006848     Document Type: Article

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