A field proof-of-concept of aquifer imaging using 3-D transient hydraulic tomography with modular, temporarily-emplaced equipment

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Cardiff, M ^a,b   Barrash, W ^a   Kitanidis, P K ^c  

^a BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER CHARACTERIZATION; AQUIFER PROPERTIES; BOISE HYDROGEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH SITES; COMPUTATIONAL EFFORT; DATA COLLECTION; DATA POINTS; DATA SOURCE; DISCRETE INTERVALS; FIELD DATA; FIELD IMPLEMENTATION; FIELD SCALE; FLOW AND TRANSPORT; GEOSTATISTICAL INVERSION; LARGE DATASETS; MODELING STUDIES; MODFLOW; MULTI CORE; NUMERICAL MODELING; PARAMETER DISTRIBUTIONS; PROOF OF CONCEPT; PUMPING TESTS; QUASI-LINEAR; RUNTIMES; SLUG TEST; STEADY STATE; TRANSIENT HYDRAULICS; UNCONFINED AQUIFERS;

AQUIFERS; EQUIPMENT; HYDRAULIC MACHINERY; TOMOGRAPHY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

AQUIFER CHARACTERIZATION; BOREHOLE; DATA SET; DRAWDOWN; EQUIPMENT; FLOW MODELING; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROGEOLOGY; IMAGING METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PUMPING; SLUG TEST; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84861378537     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR011704     Document Type: Article

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