Imaging and quantifying salt-tracer transport in a riparian groundwater system by means of 3D ERT monitoring

Geophysics

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Doetsch, Joseph ^a,e   Linde, Niklas ^b   Vogt, Tobias ^c,f   Binley, Andrew ^d   Green, Alan G ^e  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^d LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^f NAGRA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Rock physics

Indexed keywords

GROUNDWATER FLOW; INJECTION (OIL WELLS); RIVERS; VELOCITY;

BIOCHEMICAL PROCESS; GROUNDWATER TRANSPORT MODELS; HYDRAULIC GRADIENTS; RIPARIAN GROUNDWATER; ROCK PHYSICS; SUBSURFACE HETEROGENEITY; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL; TRANSPORT MODELING;

GROUNDWATER;

ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; GROUNDWATER FLOW; IMAGING METHOD; MONITORING; RIPARIAN ZONE; RIVER PLUME; SALT; TOMOGRAPHY; TRACER; TRANSPORT PROCESS;

SWITZERLAND; THUR RIVER [SWITZERLAND];

EID: 84866453360     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/geo2012-0046.1     Document Type: Article

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