Nonparametric estimation of groundwater residence time distributions: What can environmental tracer data tell us about groundwater residence time?

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 2022-2038

  McCallum, James L ^a   Engdahl, Nicholas B ^b   Ginn, Timothy R ^c   Cook, Peter G ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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

^c University of California Davis   (United States)

Author keywords

environmental tracers; residence time distributions

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVOLUTION; ESTIMATION; GROUNDWATER; NUMERICAL MODELS; RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTION;

ATMOSPHERIC CONCENTRATION; ENVIRONMENTAL TRACERS; GROUNDWATER RESIDENCE TIME; LUMPED PARAMETER MODELS; NON-PARAMETRIC DECONVOLUTION; NON-PARAMETRIC ESTIMATIONS; NONPARAMETRIC APPROACHES; RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTION (RTDS);

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84895416602     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013WR014974     Document Type: Article

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