Hydraulic tomography in fractured granite: Mizunami Underground Research site, Japan

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Illman, Walter A ^a   Liu, Xiaoyi ^b   Takeuchi, Shinji ^c   Yeh, Tian Chyi Jim ^d   Ando, Kenichi ^e   Saegusa, Hiromitsu ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^e OBAYASHI CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; BOREHOLES; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; GRANITE; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULICS; HYDROGEOLOGY; INVERSE PROBLEMS; PUMPS; RESEARCH LABORATORIES; TESTING; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY; UNDERGROUND RESERVOIRS; WATER LEVELS;

CONSTRUCTION SITES; DEEP BOREHOLES; FAULT ZONES; FRACTURE CONNECTIVITIES; GROUND WATER LEVELS; INVERSE MODELING; PARAMETER ESTIMATES; PUMPING TESTS; SEQUENTIAL SUCCESSIVE LINEAR ESTIMATORS; THREE DIMENSIONS; UNDERGROUND RESEARCH LABORATORIES;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BOREHOLE; FAULT ZONE; FRACTURE; GRANITE; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HOMOGENEITY; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; TOMOGRAPHY; WATER LEVEL; WATER STORAGE;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

EID: 61349189018     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007WR006715     Document Type: Article

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