Hydraulic conductivity fields: Gaussian or not?

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 4730-4737

  Meerschaert, Mark M ^a   Dogan, Mine ^a   Van Dam, Remke L ^a   Hyndman, David W ^a   Benson, David A ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

ground penetrating radar; hydraulic conductivity; simulation

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROGEOLOGY;

ALLUVIAL AQUIFERS; DIFFERENCE FILTER; FLOW AND TRANSPORT; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR (GPR); HIGH RESOLUTION; SIMULATION; STRUCTURAL FEATURE;

GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS;

AQUIFER; FLOW MODELING; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HISTOGRAM; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; INTERPOLATION; PARAMETERIZATION;

EID: 84880959314     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20376     Document Type: Article

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