Inferring transport characteristics in a fractured rock aquifer by combining single-hole ground-penetrating radar reflection monitoring and tracer test data

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Dorn, Caroline ^a   Linde, Niklas ^a   Le Borgne, Tanguy ^b   Bour, Olivier ^b   Klepikova, Maria ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAK THROUGH CURVE; DIFFERENCE IMAGES; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; FLOW AND TRANSPORT; FLOW PATH; FRACTURED ROCK AQUIFERS; GPR REFLECTION; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; GROUND PENETRATING RADARS; OBSERVATION POINT; REFLECTION MONITORING; SALINE TRACER; STRATEGIC LOCATIONS; TIME EVOLUTIONS; TRACER BREAKTHROUGH CURVES; TRACER TESTS; TRACER TRANSPORT; TRANSMISSIVE FRACTURES; TRANSPORT BEHAVIOR; TRANSPORT CHARACTERISTICS; TRANSPORT PARAMETERS; TRANSPORT PHENOMENA;

AQUIFERS; BOREHOLES; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FRACTURE; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; HYDROGEOLOGY; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; WELL LOGGING;

RADIOACTIVE TRACERS;

AQUIFER CHARACTERIZATION; DATA PROCESSING; FRACTURED MEDIUM; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; MONITORING; PLUME; REFLECTIVITY; ROCK; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; TESTING METHOD; TRANSPORT PROCESS;

EID: 84870153866     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR011739     Document Type: Article

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