Inherent Limitations of Hydraulic Tomography

Ground Water

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 809-824

  Bohling, Geoffrey C ^a   Butler, James J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER CHARACTERIZATION; DEGREE OF ACCURACY; DIRECT-PUSH; EFFECTIVE FIELD METHODS; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FIELD APPLICATION; FIELD EXPERIMENT; FIELD INVESTIGATION; GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYING; HIGH RESOLUTION; HYDRAULIC PARAMETERS; HYDRAULIC TESTS; INHERENT LIMITATIONS; NONUNIQUENESS; SIMULTANEOUS ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ASSESSMENT; UNCONSOLIDATED FORMATIONS;

AQUIFERS; HYDROGEOLOGY; INVERSE PROBLEMS; TOMOGRAPHY;

HYDRAULICS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AQUIFER CHARACTERIZATION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA SET; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FIELD METHOD; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; HYDROGEOLOGY; INVERSE PROBLEM; TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METHODOLOGY; SEDIMENT; THEORETICAL MODEL; TOMOGRAPHY; WATER FLOW; WATER SUPPLY;

ALGORITHMS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TOMOGRAPHY; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 78149331009     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: 17456584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2010.00757.x     Document Type: Article

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