Tidal influence on seawater intrusion in unconfined coastal aquifers

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Kuan, Woei Keong ^a,b   Jin, Guangqiu ^c   Xin, Pei ^a   Robinson, Clare ^d   Gibbes, Badin ^a   Li, Ling ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA   (Malaysia)

^c HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER SYSTEMS; COASTAL AQUIFERS; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; FIELD SCALE; GROUND WATER DISCHARGE; INTERTIDAL ZONES; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MEAN SEA LEVEL; NUMERICAL MODELS; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; TIDAL EFFECTS;

AQUIFERS; EXPERIMENTS; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; SEA LEVEL; SEAWATER;

SALT WATER INTRUSION;

AQUIFER; BOUNDARY CONDITION; COASTAL AQUIFER; DISCHARGE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GROUNDWATER FLOW; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; OSCILLATION; SALINE INTRUSION; SEA LEVEL; SEAWATER; TIDAL CYCLE;

EID: 84863156184     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR010678     Document Type: Article

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