Reactive facies: An approach for parameterizing field-scale reactive transport models using geophysical methods

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Sassen, Douglas S ^a   Hubbard, Susan S ^a   Bea, Sergio A ^a,b   Chen, Jinsong ^a   Spycher, Nicolas ^a   Denham, Miles E ^c  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b IHLLA   (Argentina)

^c SAVANNAH RIVER NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN FRAMEWORKS; CO-LOCATED; CONTAMINANT PLUME; DATA SETS; FIELD SCALE; GEOPHYSICAL DATA; GEOPHYSICAL METHODS; GROUNDWATER SITES; HIGH RESOLUTION; MODELING RESULTS; NATURAL ATTENUATION; PARAMETERIZING; REACTIVE TRANSPORT; REACTIVE TRANSPORT MODELS; TOMOGRAPHIC; U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY; UNCERTAINTY BOUNDS;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; GEOPHYSICS; GROUNDWATER; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; URANIUM;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DATA SET; FACIES; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MINERALOGY; NATURAL ATTENUATION; PLUME; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; RADAR IMAGERY; REACTIVE TRANSPORT; SEISMIC DATA; SUBSURFACE FLOW; TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSECT; URANIUM;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84867819947     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR011047     Document Type: Article

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