Capturing aquifer heterogeneity: Comparison of approaches through controlled sandbox experiments

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Berg, Steven J ^a   Illman, Walter A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER HETEROGENEITY; CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT; CROSSHOLE TESTS; EFFECTIVE PARAMETERS; GEO-STATISTICS; GEOLOGICAL MODELS; GEOMETRIC MEAN; GROUNDWATER MODELING; GROUNDWATER MODELS; HETEROGENEOUS DISTRIBUTIONS; HETEROGENEOUS MODELS; KRIGING; MODELING APPROACH; PREDICTIVE ABILITIES; PUMPING TESTS; SANDBOX EXPERIMENTS; SUBSURFACE HETEROGENEITY; TRANSIENT HYDRAULICS;

AQUIFERS; ESTIMATION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDRAULICS; PUMPS; TESTING; TOMOGRAPHY; WATER SUPPLY;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

AQUIFER; CALIBRATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GEOMETRY; GEOSTATISTICS; GROUNDWATER; HETEROGENEITY; HOMOGENEITY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; KRIGING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PUMPING; SPATIAL VARIATION; SUBSURFACE FLOW; TOMOGRAPHY; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 80053070997     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR010429     Document Type: Article

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