Imaging and characterization of solute transport during two tracer tests in a shallow aquifer using electrical resistivity tomography and multilevel groundwater samplers

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Muller, Kerstin ^a,b   Vanderborght, Jan ^a   Englert, Andreas ^a,c   Kemna, Andreas ^a,d   Huisman, Johan A ^a   Rings, Joerg ^a   Vereecken, Harry ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b RWE POWER AG   (Germany)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER HETEROGENEITY; BREAK THROUGH CURVE; CROSS SECTION; DENSITY EFFECTS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE; FLOW AND TRANSPORT; GERMANY; MEAN-FLOW DIRECTIONS; SHALLOW AQUIFERS; SIMILAR PATTERN; SMALL SAMPLING; SPATIAL PATTERNS; STREAM TUBE MODELS; SUBSURFACE TRANSPORT; TEST SITE; TRACER EXPERIMENT; TRACER TESTS; TRANSPORT SIMULATION; MULTI-LEVEL GROUNDWATERS;

AQUIFERS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDRAULICS; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; TOMOGRAPHY; RECOVERY; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

RADIATIVE TRANSFER; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

AQUIFER; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HETEROGENEITY; SAMPLING; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; SUBSURFACE FLOW; TRACER;

GERMANY; KRAUTHAUSEN; NORTH RHINE-WESTPHALIA;

EID: 77949579478     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007595     Document Type: Article

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