Self-potentials in partially saturated media: The importance of explicit modeling of electrode effects

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Jougnot, D ^a   Linde, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW AND TRANSPORT; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MODELING FRAMEWORKS; MODELING UNCERTAINTIES; PARTIALLY SATURATED; SIGNAL CONTRIBUTION; SOURCES OF INTERESTS; VADOSE ZONE HYDROLOGY;

EXPERIMENTS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DATA SET; DRAINAGE; ELECTRODE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW MODELING; IMBIBITION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SATURATED MEDIUM; SELF POTENTIAL; VADOSE ZONE;

EID: 84878128428     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2012.0169     Document Type: Article

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