River stage tomography: A new approach for characterizing groundwater basins

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Yeh, Tian Chyi J ^b   Xiang, Jianwei ^b   Suribhatla, Raghavendra M ^b   Hsu, Kuo Chin ^a   Lee, Cheng Haw ^a   Wen, Jet Chau ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL YUNLIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSS VALIDATION; DISTRIBUTED MONITORING; ENERGY SOURCE; FIELD SCALE; GEOHYDROLOGY; GROUND WATER LEVEL; GROUNDWATER BASINS; HYDROGRAPHS; ILL POSED; INVERSE SOLUTION; LAND SURFACE; NEW APPROACHES; NUMERICAL MODELS; REDUNDANT INFORMATIONS; RESPONSE SIGNAL; SINGLE EXCITATION; SUBSURFACE HETEROGENEITY; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIATION; TOMOGRAPHIC;

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; RIVERS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SURVEYS; TOMOGRAPHY;

INVERSE PROBLEMS;

BASIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GROUNDWATER; HETEROGENEITY; HYDROGRAPH; RIVER; SPATIAL VARIATION; SURVEY; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TOMOGRAPHY; WELL;

EID: 67650433815     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007233     Document Type: Article

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