A revisit of drawdown behavior during pumping in unconfined aquifers

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Mao, Deqiang ^a,b   Wan, Li ^a   Yeh, Tian Chyi J ^b,c   Lee, Cheng Haw ^c   Hsu, Kuo Chin ^c   Wen, Jet Chau ^d   Lu, Wenxi ^e  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL YUNLIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^e JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER MATERIALS; AQUIFER PARAMETERS; CONFINED AQUIFERS; CROSS-CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA; LOCAL HETEROGENEITY; MOISTURE CONTENTS; MOISTURE RETENTION; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; OBSERVATION WELLS; PARAMETER VALUES; POROUS MEDIUM; PUMPING TESTS; RATE OF CHANGE; REALISTIC MODEL; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; S SHAPE; S-SHAPED; SATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; SATURATED ZONE; SOIL COLUMN; SPATIAL EVOLUTION; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; UNCONFINED AQUIFERS; UNSATURATED ZONE; VARIABLY SATURATED FLOW; VERTICAL DRAINAGE; VERTICAL FLOWS; WATER RELEASE; WATER TABLES;

AQUIFERS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROGEOLOGY; MOISTURE; POROUS MATERIALS; PUMPS; SOIL TESTING; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; WELLS;

WATER LEVELS;

DRAINAGE; DRAWDOWN; FLOW MODELING; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HETEROGENEITY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MOISTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM; PUMPING; RECONSTRUCTION; RETENTION; SOIL COLUMN; SPATIAL VARIATION; TIME DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR; UNCONFINED AQUIFER; VERTICAL MOVEMENT; WATER STORAGE; WATER TABLE; WELL WATER;

EID: 79955951220     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR009326     Document Type: Article

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