Anthropogenic Venice uplift by seawater pumping into a heterogeneous aquifer system

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Teatini, P ^a   Ferronato, M ^a   Gambolati, G ^a   Bau D ^b   Putti, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL BURDEN; CONDUCTIVITY DISTRIBUTIONS; CORRELATION LENGTHS; CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; DATA SETS; DISCRETIZATIONS; FINITE ELEMENTS; GEOLOGIC FORMATIONS; GEOMECHANICAL MODEL; GEOMECHANICAL PROPERTIES; GROUND SURFACES; GROUNDWATER WITHDRAWAL; HETEROGENEOUS AQUIFERS; HETEROGENEOUS FORMATION; HORIZONTAL GRADIENTS; INDUSTRIAL AREA; LOG-NORMAL; MASONRY BUILDING; MONTE CARLO; NORTHERN ADRIATIC; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; OVERPRESSURE; PILOT PROJECTS; POROUS MEDIA; PUMPING TESTS; RANDOM DISTRIBUTION; SEAWATER INJECTION; SEDIMENTARY FORMATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STATIONARY RANDOM PROCESS; STOCHASTIC PROCESS;

AQUIFERS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; LAKES; POROUS MATERIALS; PUMPS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SEAWATER; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

AQUIFER; BRACKISH WATER; DATA SET; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GAS PRODUCTION; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HETEROGENEITY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; LAGOON; MASONRY; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; OVERBURDEN; OVERPRESSURE; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM; POTASSIUM; PUMPING; SEAWATER; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; UPLIFT;

ADRIATIC SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 78649784184     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR009161     Document Type: Article

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