Determination of the conduit structure in a karst aquifer based on tracer data-Lurbach system, Austria

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 225-235

  Kübeck, Christine ^a   Maloszewski, Piotr Jan ^a   Benischke, Ralf ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b JOANNEUM RESEARCH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Karst aquifer; Multi tracer experiments; Solute transport; Structure model

Indexed keywords

AUSTRIA; CONDUIT NETWORKS; CONDUIT STRUCTURE; DENUDATION RATES; EROSION LEVEL; FLOW CONDITION; FLOW PATH; KARST AQUIFER; MODEL APPROACH; MODEL SYSTEM; MULTI-TRACER EXPERIMENTS; PARAMETER ESTIMATE; SPATIAL HIERARCHY; STRUCTURAL MODELS; STRUCTURE MODELS; TEMPORAL DEVELOPMENT; TRACER BREAKTHROUGH CURVES; VOID GEOMETRY; VOLUMETRIC FLOW RATE;

AQUIFERS; EXPERIMENTS; FLOW RATE; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; MODEL STRUCTURES; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PARTIAL DISCHARGES;

LANDFORMS;

AQUIFER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; KARST HYDROLOGY; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; VOLUME TRANSPORT;

AUSTRIA;

EID: 84872190333     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.9221     Document Type: Article

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