Estimation of hydraulic conductivity and water table map in a large-scale laboratory model by means of the self-potential method

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 115, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Straface, Salvatore ^a,b   Rizzo, Enzo ^b   Chidichimo, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER CHARACTERIZATION; GEOSTATISTICS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDRAULIC HEAD; HYDROGEOLOGY; KRIGING; LABORATORY METHOD; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; LINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POROUS MEDIUM; SELF POTENTIAL; WATER TABLE; AQUIFER; DATA INVERSION;

EID: 77954354743     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JB007053     Document Type: Article

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