Experimental investigation of the thermal time-series method for surface water-groundwater interactions

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Rau, Gabriel C ^a   Andersen, Martin S ^a   Acworth, R Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DARCY VELOCITY; DISPERSIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FIELD CONDITIONS; FIELD RECORD; FIELD TEMPERATURE; HEAT TRACING; HORIZONTAL TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MULTIPOINT; NON-UNIFORM FLOWS; SATURATED SEDIMENTS; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; STEADY STATE; SURFACE WATER-GROUNDWATER INTERACTION; TEMPERATURE AMPLITUDE; TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATION; TEMPERATURE RESPONSE; THERMAL FORCING; THERMAL SPREADING; TRANSITION ZONES; TRANSPORT EQUATION; WATER FLOWS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; GROUNDWATER; SEDIMENTOLOGY; THERMAL GRADIENTS;

VELOCITY;

AMPLITUDE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTION; HETEROGENEITY; HOMOGENEITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOLUTE; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TIME SERIES; TRANSITION ZONE; VELOCITY;

GASTROPODA;

EID: 84859337130     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR011560     Document Type: Article

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