Using groundwater age distributions to estimate the effective parameters of Fickian and non-Fickian models of solute transport

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 54, Issue , 2013, Pages 11-21

  Engdahl, Nicholas B ^a   Ginn, Timothy R ^b   Fogg, Graham E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California Davis   (United States)

Author keywords

Groundwater age; Nonstationary; Parameter estimation; Solute transport

Indexed keywords

AGE EQUATIONS; EFFECTIVE PARAMETERS; GROUNDWATER AGES; LAYERED AQUIFER; MONITORING WELLS; NON-FICKIAN; NON-FICKIAN MODEL; NONSTATIONARY; TIME DISTRIBUTION; TRACER TESTS; TRANSPORT MODELING; TRANSPORT MODELS;

AQUIFERS; ESTIMATION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; WELLS;

SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

AQUIFER; DECONVOLUTION; ESTIMATION METHOD; FLOW MODELING; GROUNDWATER FLOW; PARAMETERIZATION; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 84872651352     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2012.12.008     Document Type: Article

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