Electrical imaging and fluid modeling of convective fingering in a shallow water-table aquifer

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 954-968

  Van Dam, Remke L ^a,b   Eustice, Brian P ^a,c   Hyndman, David W ^a   Wood, Warren W ^a   Simmons, Craig T ^d  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c GOLDER ASSOCIATES LTD   (Canada)

^d FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

electrical resistivity; free convection; groundwater; numerical modeling; sabkha

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GROUNDWATER; INFILTRATION; NATURAL CONVECTION; NUMERICAL MODELS; RAIN; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; TOMOGRAPHY;

CONVECTION PHENOMENA; CONVECTIVE INSTABILITIES; DENSITY DRIVEN FLOWS; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY TOMOGRAPHY; FINGERING INSTABILITIES; GRAVITATIONAL INSTABILITY; SABKHA; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

AQUIFER; BRINE; CONVECTION; DATA SET; ELECTRICAL METHOD; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; FINGERING; FLOW MODELING; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRODYNAMICS; IMAGING METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINFALL; SABKHA; SHALLOW WATER; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSIENT FLOW; WATER TABLE;

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES;

EID: 84893639476     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013WR013673     Document Type: Article

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