Derivation of site-specific relationships between hydraulic parameters and p-wave velocities based on hydraulic and seismic tomography

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Brauchler, R ^a   Doetsch, J ^a,b   Dietrich, P ^c   Sauter, M ^d  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION TOMOGRAPHY; DIRECT-PUSH; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; FIELD STUDIES; GEOPHYSICAL PARAMETERS; GERMANY; GRAVEL AQUIFERS; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; HYDRAULIC PARAMETERS; HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; HYDRAULIC TESTS; HYDROGEOPHYSICAL; K-MEANS CLUSTER ANALYSIS; P-WAVE VELOCITY; RAY-TRACING TECHNIQUE; RIVER VALLEY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SHALLOW SUBSURFACE; SIMULTANEOUS ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES; SITE CHARACTERIZATION; SITE-SPECIFIC; TOMOGRAPHIC; TOMOGRAPHIC DATA; TOMOGRAPHIC INVERSION; TRAVEL TIME TOMOGRAPHY;

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; AQUIFERS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; MINING LAWS AND REGULATIONS; SEISMOGRAPHS; SEISMOLOGY;

SEISMIC WAVES;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIFFUSIVITY; P-WAVE; RAY TRACING; SAND AND GRAVEL; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TRAVEL TIME;

GERMANY;

EID: 84859355309     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR010868     Document Type: Article

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