Hydraulic tomography analog outcrop study: Combining travel time and steady shape inversion

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 409, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 350-362

  Hu, R ^a   Brauchler, R ^b   Herold, M ^a   Bayer, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aquifer analog; Hydraulic tomography; Inversion strategy

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER CHARACTERIZATION; COMPLEMENTARY METHODS; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; FIELD APPLICATION; GROUNDWATER SYSTEM; HYDRAULIC FEATURES; HYDRAULIC PARAMETERS; INVERSION STRATEGY; NUMERICAL FLOW MODELS; OBSERVATION INTERVAL; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PARAMETER VALUES; PUMPING TESTS; SEDIMENTARY AQUIFERS; SHAPE INVERSION; SMALL SCALE; STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS; TEST DESIGNS; TOMOGRAPHIC; TRAVEL TIME; TRAVEL TIME TOMOGRAPHY;

AQUIFERS; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROGEOLOGY; RESEARCH; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

AQUIFER CHARACTERIZATION; COMPLEMENTARITY; FIELD SURVEY; HETEROGENEITY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OUTCROP; PUMPING; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM; TOMOGRAPHY; TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 80054074907     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.08.031     Document Type: Article

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