Evaluation of analytical and numerical approaches for the estimation of groundwater travel time distribution

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 475, Issue , 2012, Pages 65-73

  Basu, Nandita B ^a   Jindal, Priyanka ^b   Schilling, Keith E ^c   Wolter, Calvin F ^c   Takle, Eugene S ^b,d  

^a IA United States   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Iowa Geological and Water Survey   (United States)

^d Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

Author keywords

Groundwater nitrate; Time lag; Travel time distribution

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC MODELS; CONSERVATION PRACTICES; EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; FLOOD-PLAINS; GIS MODELS; LAG-TIME; LAND SURFACE; LANDSCAPE POSITIONS; MODEL DEVELOPMENT; MODFLOW; MODFLOW MODEL; NUMERICAL APPROACHES; OPTIMAL PLACEMENTS; THREE MODELS; TIME DISTRIBUTION; TIME LAG; UNCONFINED AQUIFERS; WATER TABLE GRADIENT; WATER TABLE SURFACE; WATER TABLES;

ANALYTICAL MODELS; AQUIFERS; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); ESTIMATION; FLOODS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE WATERS; TRAVEL TIME;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

DATA SET; DESIGN; ESTIMATION METHOD; FLOODPLAIN; GIS; GROUNDWATER; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LAND SURFACE; LANDSCAPE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NITRATE; SATURATION; SOLUTE; STAKEHOLDER; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM; SURFACE WATER; TRAVEL TIME; WATER TABLE; WATERSHED;

EID: 84870240521     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.08.052     Document Type: Article

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