Coupled hydrogeophysical inversion of streaming potential signals for unsaturated soil hydraulic properties

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Mboh, C M ^a   Huisman, J A ^a   Zimmermann, E ^a   Vereecken, H ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE MODELING; AG/AGCL; APPROPRIATE MODELS; COUPLING COEFFICIENT; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FITTING PARAMETERS; HYDRAULIC CHARACTERIZATION; HYDRAULIC PARAMETERS; HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; HYDROGEOPHYSICAL; INVERSION RESULTS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MONOTONIC DECREASE; PARTIAL SATURATION; PORE WATERS; POROUS MEDIUM; RELATIVE ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITIES; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; SATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; SATURATED ZONE; SATURATION EXPONENT; SOIL POROSITY; STREAMING POTENTIAL; UNSATURATED HYDRAULICS; UNSATURATED SOIL; VADOSE ZONE; WATER SATURATIONS;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; GROUNDWATER; POROUS MATERIALS;

ESTIMATION;

ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRODE; FLUID FLOW; GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; INFILTRATION; LABORATORY METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMEABILITY; PHREATIC ZONE; POREWATER; POROUS MEDIUM; STREAMING POTENTIAL; TENSIOMETER; UNSATURATED MEDIUM; VADOSE ZONE;

EID: 84862293736     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2011.0115     Document Type: Article

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