A novel approach for characterizing the mixing zone of a saltwater wedge

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Abarca, Elena ^a,b   Prabhakar Clement, T ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER MODEL; COASTAL AQUIFERS; DENSITY DEPENDENT FLOW; DISPERSIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES; EXPERIMENTAL METHODS; EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURE; LABORATORY SCALE; MIXING PARAMETERS; MIXING ZONES; REACTIVE TRANSPORT; REGIONAL GROUNDWATER FLOW; TRANSITION REGIONS;

AQUIFERS; COLORIMETRY; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; SALT WATER INTRUSION; SEAWATER;

MIXING;

COASTAL AQUIFER; COLORIMETRY; DISPERSIVITY; ESTUARINE FRONT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW MODELING; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING;

EID: 66949146161     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL036995     Document Type: Article

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