Imaging high stage river-water intrusion into a contaminated aquifer along a major river corridor using 2-D time-lapse surface electrical resistivity tomography

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1693-1708

  Wallin, E L ^a   Johnson, T C ^b   Greenwood, W J ^b   Zachara, J M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

electrical resistivity tomography; groundwater surface water exchange; time lapse imaging

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; NUCLEAR FUELS; RIVERS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; URANIUM; WASTE DISPOSAL;

CONTAMINATED AQUIFER; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY TOMOGRAPHY; GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION; HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING RESOURCES; LOW PERMEABILITY ZONE; NUCLEAR FUEL PROCESSING; TIME-LAPSE IMAGING; WATER EXCHANGE;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

AQUIFER POLLUTION; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTION; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; RIVER WATER; TIME SERIES; TOMOGRAPHY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; URANIUM; WATER EXCHANGE; WATER TABLE;

COLUMBIA RIVER; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 84876733391     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20119     Document Type: Article

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