Partitioning a regional groundwater flow system into shallow local and deep regional flow compartments

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 2274-2286

  Goderniaux, Pascal ^a,b   Davy, Philippe ^a   Bresciani, Etienne ^a   De Dreuzy, Jean Raynald ^a   Le Borgne, Tanguy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Brittany; deep aquifers; groundwater modeling; recharge partitioning; transit times

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; TOPOGRAPHY;

BRITTANY; GROUND WATER DISCHARGE; GROUNDWATER MODELING; RECHARGE PARTITIONING; REGIONAL GROUNDWATER FLOW; TRANSIT TIME; TRANSIT-TIME DISTRIBUTIONS; TWO-COMPARTMENT MODELS;

RECHARGING (UNDERGROUND WATERS);

AQUIFER; COMPARTMENTALIZATION; DISCHARGE; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FLOW MODELING; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HILLSLOPE; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; RECHARGE; SHALLOW WATER; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

BRETAGNE; FRANCE;

EID: 84877933803     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20186     Document Type: Article

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