Interplay between resident and infiltrating water: Estimates from transient water flow and solute transport

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 458-459, Issue , 2012, Pages 40-50

  Gouet Kaplan, Maxime ^a   Arye, Gilboa ^a   Berkowitz, Brian ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Immobile water; Old new water dynamics; Transient unsaturated flow

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE GRAIN SIZE; CONSERVATIVE TRACERS; FLOWTHROUGH; GEOCHEMICAL REACTION; IMMOBILE WATER; LABORATORY COLUMNS; LINEAR CORRELATION; MASS BALANCE CONSIDERATIONS; MOBILE-IMMOBILE MODELS; OLD WATER; PARTIALLY SATURATED; PORE VOLUME; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; RICHARDS EQUATION; TRANSIENT UNSATURATED FLOW; TWO-REGIME; UPPER-END; WATER DYNAMICS; WATER FLOWS;

OPTIMIZATION; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; WATER CONTENT;

INFILTRATION;

ESTIMATION METHOD; FLOW MODELING; FLOW PATTERN; GRAIN SIZE; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY; HYDROGEOLOGY; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; INFILTRATION; LABORATORY METHOD; MASS TRANSFER; OPTIMIZATION; RICHARDS EQUATION; SAND; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; TRACER; TRANSIENT FLOW; UNSATURATED FLOW; WATER CONTENT; WATER FLOW;

EID: 84864303011     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.06.026     Document Type: Article

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