Active Thermal Tracer Tests for Improved Hydrostratigraphic Characterization

Ground Water

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 726-735

  Leaf, Andrew T ^a   Hart, David J ^b   Bahr, Jean M ^b  

^a SoundEarth Strategies   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLE DILUTION TESTING; CONVENTIONAL TECHNOLOGY; DISTRIBUTED TEMPERATURE SENSING; FLOW REGIMES; FLUID COLUMNS; HEAT PULSE; HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; SUBSURFACE HETEROGENEITY; THERMAL TRACERS; WISCONSIN;

FLOW RATE; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOLOGY; POROUS MATERIALS;

BOREHOLES;

BOREHOLE; HEAT BALANCE; HETEROGENEITY; HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; HYDROGEOLOGY; POROUS MEDIUM; SUBSURFACE FLOW; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METHODOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; WATER FLOW;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; TEMPERATURE; WATER MOVEMENTS;

MADISON; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

EID: 84865571936     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: 17456584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2012.00913.x     Document Type: Article

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