Hydraulic conductivity imaging from 3-D transient hydraulic tomography at several pumping/observation densities

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 7311-7326

  Cardiff, Michael ^a,b   Barrash, Warren ^a   Kitanidis, Peter K ^c  

^a BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

field study; hydraulic tomography; hydrogeophysics; inversion; resolution

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER CHARACTERIZATION; BOISE HYDROGEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH SITES; FIELD STUDIES; GEOSTATISTICAL APPROACH; HYDRAULIC TOMOGRAPHIES; HYDROGEOPHYSICS; INVERSION; REAL-WORLD PERFORMANCE;

AQUIFERS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PUMPS;

TOMOGRAPHY;

AQUIFER CHARACTERIZATION; DATA INVERSION; GEOSTATISTICS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROGEOLOGY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IMAGING METHOD; PUMPING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84887275940     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20519     Document Type: Article

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