Joint estimation of transmissivity and storativity in a bedrock fracture

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Castagna, Marta ^a   Becker, Matthew W ^b   Bellin, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN METHODS; BEDDING PLANES; BEDROCK FRACTURE; JOINT ESTIMATION; MONTE CARLO; POINT VALUE; PUMPING TESTS; RANDOM FIELDS; RANDOM SPACE FUNCTIONS; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; SUB-HORIZONTAL BEDROCK FRACTURE; SYNTHETIC EXPERIMENTS; TRANSMISSIVITY; TWO-DIMENSION;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; EXPERIMENTS;

FRACTURE;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BEDDING PLANE; BEDROCK; DRAWDOWN; ESTIMATION METHOD; FIELD SURVEY; FRACTURE GEOMETRY; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SANDSTONE; SPATIAL VARIATION; STORAGE; TESTING METHOD; TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSMISSIVITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 80052520182     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR009262     Document Type: Article

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