3-D transient hydraulic tomography in unconfined aquifers with fast drainage response

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Cardiff, M ^a,b   Barrash, W ^a  

^a BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOISE HYDROGEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH SITES; FIELD CAMPAIGN; GEOSTATISTICAL; GEOSTATISTICAL INVERSION; HYDROLOGIC PARAMETERS; INNER ITERATION; NUMBER OF DATUM; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; OUTER ITERATION; PARAMETER VARIABILITY; PUMPING RATE; QUASI-LINEAR; REALISTIC SCENARIO; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; SPECIFIC YIELD; STORAGE COEFFICIENT; TEST LENGTHS; TRANSIENT DATA; TRANSIENT HYDRAULICS; UNCERTAINTY BOUNDS; UNCONFINED AQUIFERS;

AQUIFERS; ESTIMATION; EXPERIMENTS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AQUIFER; DATA SET; DEGRADATION; DRAINAGE; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOMETRY; GEOSTATISTICS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; LINEARITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMEABILITY; POTASSIUM; PUMPING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SURVEY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TOMOGRAPHY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84055188748     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR010367     Document Type: Article

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