Exploring solute transport and streamline connectivity using lidar-based outcrop images and geostatistical representations of heterogeneity

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Klise, Katherine A ^b   Weissmann, Gary S ^a   McKenna, Sean A ^b   Nichols, Elizabeth M ^a   Frechette, Jedediah D ^a   Wawrzyniec, Tim F ^a   Tidwell, Vince C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIDED STREAM; COVARIANCE FUNCTION; GEOSTATISTICAL; GEOSTATISTICAL METHOD; GRAVEL BED; HEAVY-TAILED; HIGH-RESOLUTION LIDAR; INDICATOR METHODS; LITHOFACIES; NON-FICKIAN; TRANSPORT CHARACTERISTICS; TRANSPORT SIMULATION; TWO-POINT;

GRAVEL; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

OPTICAL RADAR;

ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION; ARRIVAL TIME; BRAIDED RIVER; CONNECTIVITY; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; GEOSTATISTICS; GRAVEL; GRAVEL BED STREAM; HETEROGENEITY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; LIDAR; LITHOFACIES; OUTCROP; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

EID: 67650314192     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007500     Document Type: Article

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