Effects of non-Gaussian copula-based hydraulic conductivity fields on macrodispersion

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Haslauer, C P ^a   Guthke, P ^a   Brdossy, A ^a   Sudicky, E A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL MOMENTS; CONCENTRATION FIELDS; GAUSSIANS; GEO-STATISTICS; HETEROGENEOUS AQUIFERS; MACRODISPERSION; MARGINAL DISTRIBUTION; NON-GAUSSIAN; POROUS MEDIUM; REAL WORLD DATA; SECOND ORDERS; SPATIAL DEPENDENCE; SPATIAL FIELDS; SPATIAL MOMENT; TRANSPORT CHARACTERISTICS; VARIOGRAMS;

AQUIFERS; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); HYDROGEOLOGY; POROUS MATERIALS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY;

ANISOTROPY; DATA SET; GAUSSIAN METHOD; GEOSTATISTICS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; ISOTROPY; POROUS MEDIUM; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; UNCONFINED AQUIFER; VARIOGRAM;

BORDEN AQUIFER; CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

EID: 84864052868     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR011425     Document Type: Article

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