کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5763794 1625608 2017 12 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Improving large-scale groundwater models by considering fossil gradients
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
بهبود مدل های آب زیرزمینی در مقیاس بزرگ با استفاده از شیب های فسیلی
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه علوم زمین و سیارات فرآیندهای سطح زمین
چکیده انگلیسی


- Fossil gradients strongly influence the groundwater flow of various large-scale aquifer systems.
- This study presents a novel calibration strategy for fossil, large-scale aquifer systems.
- Neglecting fossil gradients leads to a wrong description of the flow regime and to an overestimation of the aquifer storage capacity.

Due to limited availability of surface water, many arid to semi-arid countries rely on their groundwater resources. Despite the quasi-absence of present day replenishment, some of these groundwater bodies contain large amounts of water, which was recharged during pluvial periods of the Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene. These mostly fossil, non-renewable resources require different management schemes compared to those which are usually applied in renewable systems. Fossil groundwater is a finite resource and its withdrawal implies mining of aquifer storage reserves. Although they receive almost no recharge, some of them show notable hydraulic gradients and a flow towards their discharge areas, even without pumping. As a result, these systems have more discharge than recharge and hence are not in steady state, which makes their modelling, in particular the calibration, very challenging. In this study, we introduce a new calibration approach, composed of four steps: (i) estimating the fossil discharge component, (ii) determining the origin of fossil discharge, (iii) fitting the hydraulic conductivity with a pseudo steady-state model, and (iv) fitting the storage capacity with a transient model by reconstructing head drawdown induced by pumping activities. Finally, we test the relevance of our approach and evaluated the effect of considering or ignoring fossil gradients on aquifer parameterization for the Upper Mega Aquifer (UMA) on the Arabian Peninsula.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Advances in Water Resources - Volume 103, May 2017, Pages 32-43
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