Mass Discharge in a Tracer Plume: Evaluation of the Theissen Polygon Method

Ground Water

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 895-907

  Mackay, Douglas M ^a   Einarson, Murray D ^b   Kaiser, Phil M ^a   Nozawa Inoue, Mamie ^a   Goyal, Sham ^a   Chakraborty, Irina ^a   Rasa, Ehsan ^a   Scow, Kate M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Geomatrix Consultants   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE MASS; AVERAGE SPACING; GROUNDWATER FLOW DIRECTIONS; LOW DENSITY; MASS INJECTION; MASS-DISCHARGE; NATURAL ATTENUATION; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; POTENTIAL ERRORS; REMEDIATION SYSTEMS; SAMPLING DENSITIES; TIME FRAME; TOTAL MASS;

AQUIFERS; DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); GROUNDWATER FLOW;

WELL SPACING;

GROUND WATER;

AQUIFER; BIOREMEDIATION; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HETEROGENEITY; PLUME; POLYGON;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EVALUATION; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; UNITED STATES; WATER FLOW; WATER POLLUTANT;

CALIFORNIA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GROUNDWATER; MODELS, STATISTICAL; TIME FACTORS; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84868659813     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: 17456584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2012.00912.x     Document Type: Article

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