Simple Automatic Time-Stepping for Improved Simulation of Groundwater Hydrographs

Ground Water

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 736-745

  Jackson, Christopher R ^a  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISCRETIZATIONS; FINITE DIFFERENCE; FLOOD EVENT; GROUND WATER RECHARGE; GROUNDWATER LEVEL FLUCTUATION; GROUNDWATER MODELS; HYDROGRAPHS; MAXIMUM ABSOLUTE ERROR; REGIONAL GROUNDWATER; REGIONAL MODEL; RUNTIMES; TIME STEP; TIME STEPPING ALGORITHMS; TIME-STEPPING;

ALGORITHMS; AQUIFERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GROUNDWATER FLOW;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

GROUND WATER;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; DIFFUSION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGRAPH; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; RECHARGE;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER FLOW;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GROUNDWATER; MODELS, THEORETICAL; WATER MOVEMENTS;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84865555194     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: 17456584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2011.00898.x     Document Type: Article

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