Improved extraction of hydrologic information from geophysical data through coupled hydrogeophysical inversion

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Hinnell, A C ^a   Ferr, T P A ^a   Vrugt, J A ^b,c   Huisman, J A ^d   Moysey, S ^e   Rings, J ^d   Kowalsky, M B ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR NONLINEAR STUDIES   (United States)

^c University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^d FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^e AMRL   (United States)

^f LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE APPROACH; COUPLED MODELS; DIRECT COUPLING; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; GEOPHYSICAL DATA; GEOPHYSICAL INVERSION; GEOPHYSICAL MEASUREMENTS; GEOPHYSICAL MODELS; GEOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES; HYDROGEOPHYSICAL; HYDROLOGIC MODELS; HYDROLOGIC PROCESS; HYDROLOGIC PROPERTIES; ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES; INVERSE APPROACH; MULTIPLE MEASUREMENTS; PETROPHYSICAL; STRUCTURAL ERRORS; SURFACE-BASED; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; COUPLED HYDROGEOPHYSICAL INVERSIONS;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ERRORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METAL RECOVERY; WATER; WATER CONTENT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

GEOPHYSICS;

DATA SET; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; INFILTRATION; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER CONTENT; HYDROGEOLOGY; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 77951064099     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007060     Document Type: Article

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