Robustness of joint interpretation of sequential pumping tests: Numerical and field experiments

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Huang, Shao Yang ^a   Wen, Jet Chau ^a   Yeh, Tian Chyi J ^b   Lu, Wenxi ^c   Juan, Hsiang Lan ^d   Tseng, Chung Min ^d   Lee, Ju Huang ^d   Chang, Kuo Chyang ^d  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d MINISTRY OF ECONOMIC AFFAIRS   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL MODEL; DATA SETS; FIELD EXPERIMENT; GENERAL PATTERNS; JOINT INTERPRETATION; PUMPING TESTS; PUMPING WELL; SYNTHETIC AQUIFERS; T ESTIMATE; TRANSMISSIVITY; VALIDATION TEST;

AQUIFERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; HYDROGEOLOGY; PUMPS;

TESTING;

AQUIFER; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DATA SET; DRAWDOWN; FIELD METHOD; FLOW PATTERN; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HETEROGENEITY; HOMOGENEITY; MODEL TEST; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; PUMPING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSMISSIVITY; WATER LEVEL; WELL;

EID: 80455137087     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR010698     Document Type: Article

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