Publication Date:
2020-02-12
Description:
The extraction of groundwater for drinking water purposes is one of the most important uses of the natural subsurface. Sustainable management of groundwater resources requires detailed knowledge of the hydraulic properties of the subsurface. Typically, these properties are not directly accessible. We are convinced that the evaluation of hydraulic properties necessitates applying hydraulic stimuli (e.g., injection and extraction of groundwater, tracer tests, etc.). In this context, tomographic assemblies and inversion strategies originally derived for geophysical surveying and meteorological data assimilation can be transferred to hydraulic applications. In addition, time-lapse geophysical surveying techniques may be used to monitor hydraulic tests. The latter requires fully coupled hydrogeophysical inversion strategies, accounting for the entire process chain from hydraulic properties via flow and transport to the geophysical surveying program. The current project includes: (1) the development of a geostatistical inversion method for transient tomographic data of multiple hydraulic investigation techniques including the geoelectrical monitoring of salt-tracer experiments using the 4-D variational approach, (2) the comparison of this method to the inversion of temporal moments, (3) the model-based optimal design of tomographic surveys, (4) the development of modular assessment equipment for efficient execution of tomographic surveys in a hydrogeological context, (5) the performance of tomographic field tests at the research site Lauswiesen in Tübingen using the model-based design and providing data for the inversion.
Language:
English
Type:
info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject
Format:
application/pdf
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