Submarine ground water discharge driven by tidal pumping in a heterogeneous aquifer

Ground Water

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 558-568

  Li, Xinya ^a   Hu, Bill X ^a   Burnett, William C ^a   Santos, Isaac R ^a   Chanton, Jeffery P ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-DENSITY; COASTAL UNCONFINED AQUIFERS; ESTIMATION RANGE; FIELD MEASUREMENT; FRESH WATER; GEOCHEMICAL TRACER; GROUND WATER DISCHARGE; HETEROGENEOUS AQUIFERS; HYDRAULIC GRADIENTS; HYDROGEOLOGICAL MODELS; INFLUENCING FACTOR; INTENSIVE MEASUREMENTS; NORMAL CONDITION; NORTHEASTERN GULF OF MEXICO; NUMERICAL CODE; QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATION; SALT WATER; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; STUDY SITES; SUBMARINE GROUNDWATER DISCHARGE; TIDAL PUMPING; TIDAL RANGES; TWO-DIMENSIONAL; UNCERTAIN BOUNDARIES; WATER TABLE HEIGHT; WATER-PATHWAY;

AQUIFERS; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; PUMPS; RADON; SUBMARINES; TIDES; WATER; WATER WELLS;

SEAWATER;

SEA WATER;

AQUIFER; CALIBRATION; DISCHARGE; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER-SEAWATER INTERACTION; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROGEOLOGY; MODEL VALIDATION; RADON ISOTOPE; SALINE INTRUSION; SEAWATER; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIDAL RANGE; TRACER; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; WATER FLOW;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; SEAWATER; WATER MOVEMENTS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 68149092192     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: 17456584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2009.00563.x     Document Type: Article

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