Coupled hydrogeophysical inversion of time-lapse surface GPR data to estimate hydraulic properties of a layered subsurface

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 8480-8494

  Busch, Sebastian ^a   Weihermüller, Lutz ^a   Huisman, Johan A ^a   Steelman, Colby M ^b   Endres, Anthony L ^c   Vereecken, Harry ^a   Van Der Kruk, Jan ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUPLED HYDROGEOPHYSICAL INVERSIONS; GROUND PENETRATING RADARS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; SOIL HYDRAULIC PARAMETERS; SOIL HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; SOIL-WATER DISTRIBUTION; TIME-LAPSE MONITORING; VADOSE ZONE HYDROLOGY;

GROUNDWATER; HYDROLOGY; SOIL MECHANICS; SOIL MOISTURE; VAPORS; WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

FIELD; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; SOIL DYNAMICS; SOIL HORIZON; SOIL WATER; SUBSURFACE FLOW; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VADOSE ZONE; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER CONTENT; WATER FLOW;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

EID: 84896724560     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013WR013992     Document Type: Article

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