Constraining Groundwater Modeling with Magnetic Resonance Soundings

Ground Water

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 775-784

  Boucher, Marie ^a   Favreau, Guillaume ^a,b   Nazoumou, Yahaya ^b   Cappelaere, Bernard ^c   Massuel, Sylvain ^d   Legchenko, Anatoly ^e  

^a IRD Hydrosciences Montpellier ^*  (Niger)

^b UNIVERSITÉ ABDOU MOUMOUNI   (Niger)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTPELLIER   (France)

^d Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement Tunis   (Tunisia)

^e GRENOBLE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER RECHARGE; AQUIFER THICKNESS; EQUIFINALITY; GEOPHYSICAL METHODS; GROUNDWATER MODELING; GROUNDWATER MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SOUNDINGS; NIGER; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PARAMETER RANGE; PIEZOMETRIC LEVELS; SPECIFIC YIELD; SURFACE HYDROLOGY; TIME DOMAIN ELECTROMAGNETICS; TRANSMISSIVITY; WATER TABLES;

AQUIFERS; ESTIMATION; HYDROGEOLOGY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

GROUND WATER;

AQUIFER; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; GROUNDWATER; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PERMEABILITY; PIEZOMETER; RECHARGE; WATER CONTENT; WATER TABLE;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER FLOW;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GROUNDWATER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 84865551987     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: 17456584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2011.00891.x     Document Type: Article

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