Characterization of groundwater and surface water mixing in a semiconfined karst aquifer using time-lapse electrical resistivity tomography

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 2566-2585

  Meyerhoff, Steven B ^a,c   Maxwell, Reed M ^a   Revil, André ^a,b   Martin, Jonathan B ^d   Karaoulis, Marios ^a   Graham, Wendy D ^d  

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

^b UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c Itasca Denver Inc   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

electrical resistivity tomography; geophysics; groundwater and surface water interactions; synthetic modeling

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; AQUIFERS; GEOPHYSICS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; LANDFORMS; MIXING; MODELS; SURFACE WATERS; WATER QUALITY;

ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY DATUM; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY TOMOGRAPHY; END-MEMBER MIXING ANALYSIS; GEOPHYSICAL SIMULATIONS; GROUNDWATER AND SURFACE WATER INTERACTIONS; HYDROLOGIC CONDITIONS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL PATTERNS; SYNTHETIC MODELS;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

EID: 84896432018     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013WR013991     Document Type: Article

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