Cost-effective hydraulic tomography surveys for predicting flow and transport in heterogeneous aquifers

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3720-3727

  Ni, Chuen Fa ^a   Yeh, Tian Chyi Jim ^b,c   Chen, Jui Sheng ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE ESTIMATION; ACCURATE PREDICTION; APPROPRIATE DISTANCES; BREAK THROUGH CURVE; CO-KRIGING; CORRELATION LENGTHS; DATA ESTIMATOR; FLOW AND TRANSPORT; GEOMETRIC MEAN; HETEROGENEOUS AQUIFERS; HYDRAULIC STRESS; HYDRAULIC TESTS; KRIGING; MEASUREMENT POINTS; OPERATION STRATEGY; SEQUENTIAL DATA; SQUARE ERRORS;

AQUIFERS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; ESTIMATION; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROGEOLOGY; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; PUMPS; SEQUENTIAL SWITCHING; SURVEYS; TOMOGRAPHY;

HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS;

ALGORITHM; AQUIFER; CALIBRATION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HETEROGENEITY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; KRIGING; PREDICTION; SURVEY; TESTING METHOD; TOMOGRAPHY; WELL;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; AQUIFER; ARTICLE; BREAKTHROUGH CURVE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DISPERSION; FLOW RATE; GEOMETRY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDRAULIC TOMOGRAPHY SURVEY; KRIGING; PARAMETER; POROSITY; TECHNIQUE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA COLLECTION; MOTION; TOMOGRAPHY; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 66249095674     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es8024098     Document Type: Article

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