Stochastic characterization of the Montalto Uffugo research site (Italy) by geostatistical inversion of moment equations of groundwater flow

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 381, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 42-51

  Janetti, Emanuela Bianchi ^a   Riva, Monica ^a   Straface, Salvatore ^b   Guadagnini, Alberto ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aquifer characterization; Heterogeneous media; Stochastic inversion

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER CHARACTERIZATION; BEST ESTIMATES; COMPUTATIONAL GRIDS; FIELD APPLICATION; FORMAL MODEL; GEOSTATISTICAL; GEOSTATISTICAL INVERSION; GROUNDWATER FLOW EQUATION; HETEROGENEOUS AQUIFERS; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA; HYDRAULIC HEADS; INVERSE ALGORITHM; KRIGING; MEAN FLOW; MEASUREMENT LOCATIONS; MODEL PARAMETERS; MOMENT EQUATIONS; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; PARAMETERIZED; POSTERIORI; PREDICTION ERRORS; PRIOR INFORMATION; PUMPING TESTS; QUASI-STEADY STATE; RECURSIVE APPROXIMATION; RELATIVE WEIGHTS; SECOND ORDERS; SECOND-ORDER CLOSURE; SELF-POTENTIAL SIGNALS; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; SURFACE ELECTRODE; TRANSMISSIVITY; TRANSMISSIVITY FIELD; UNKNOWN VALUES; VARIANCE-COVARIANCE; VARIOGRAMS;

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; AQUIFERS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD;

ALGORITHM; AQUIFER CHARACTERIZATION; ELECTRODE; GEOSTATISTICS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; HYDRAULIC HEAD; KRIGING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; RESEARCH INSTITUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; STEADY FLOW; STOCHASTICITY; TRANSMISSIVITY; VARIOGRAM;

CALABRIA; COSENZA; ITALY; MONTALTO UFFUGO;

EID: 74049135739     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2009.11.023     Document Type: Article

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