Reducing local hydrology from high-precision gravity measurements: A lysimeter-based approach

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 183, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 178-187

  Creutzfeldt, Benjamin ^a   Güntner, Andreas ^a   Wziontek, Hartmut ^b   Merz, Bruno ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (BKG)   (Germany)

Author keywords

Europe; Hydrogeophysics; Hydrology; Time variable gravity

Indexed keywords

1-D MODELS; EARTH'S GRAVITY FIELDS; EUROPE; FIELD SCALE; FRACTURED AQUIFER; GEOPHYSICAL PROCESS; GERMANY; GRAVITY MEASUREMENT; GRAVITY RESPONSE; HIGH-PRECISION; HYDROGEOPHYSICS; HYDROLOGICAL EFFECTS; SNOW PACKS; TEMPORAL GRAVITY; TIME VARIABLE GRAVITY; TOP SOILS; WATER BUDGET; WATER STORAGE;

AQUIFERS; ESTIMATION; GEODESY; GRAVIMETERS; HYDROLOGY; LYSIMETERS; WATER;

SOIL SURVEYS;

GEODESY; GRAVIMETRY; GRAVITY FIELD; HYDROGEOLOGY; LYSIMETER; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; PRECISION; WATER BUDGET; WATER STORAGE;

EUROPE;

EID: 77956384914     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04742.x     Document Type: Article

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