Modeled ground water age distributions

Ground Water

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 547-557

  Woolfenden, Linda R ^a   Ginn, Timothy R ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b University of California Davis   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE EQUATIONS; ANTHROPOGENIC CHEMICALS; CONTINUOUS DISTRIBUTION; DISPERSIONLESS; DISPERSIVITY; EDGE EFFECT; EXPECTED VALUES; MEAN AGES; MODEL DOMAINS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; ONEDIMENSIONAL FLOW; PHYSICAL MODEL; PRESENCE OF WATER; SPACE AND TIME; TEST PROBLEM; TWO SPACE DIMENSIONS; WATER MASS;

AQUIFERS; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; OCEANOGRAPHY; SIMULATORS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

WATER ANALYSIS;

AGE DETERMINATION; DISPERSIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MASS BALANCE; MODEL TEST; NUMERICAL MODEL; RECHARGE; TRACER;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METHODOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER FLOW;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 68249093518     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: 17456584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2008.00550.x     Document Type: Article

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