Time-lapse magnetic resonance sounding measurements for numerical modeling of water flow in variably saturated media

Autor: Céline Duwig, Alvaro Soruco, Jean-Michel Baltassat, Alain Beauce, Cédric Legout, Jean-François Girard, Flores Avilès Gabriela Patricia, Francis Mathieu, Marc Descloitres, Marie Boucher, Anatoly Legchenko
Přispěvatelé: Institut des Géosciences de l’Environnement (IGE), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM) (BRGM), Université Grenoble Alpes - UFR Médecine (UGA UFRM), Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (UMSA), Indo-French Cell for Water Sciences (IFCWS), Indian Institute of Science [Bangalore] (IISc Bangalore), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Institut de physique du globe de Strasbourg (IPGS), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Journal of Applied Geophysics
Journal of Applied Geophysics, 2020, 175, pp.103984. ⟨10.1016/j.jappgeo.2020.103984⟩
Journal of Applied Geophysics, Elsevier, 2020, 175, pp.103984. ⟨10.1016/j.jappgeo.2020.103984⟩
ISSN: 0926-9851
DOI: 10.1016/j.jappgeo.2020.103984
Popis: We presented an innovative hydrogeophysical approach that allows numerical modeling of water flow in a variably saturated media. In our model, we approximated the subsurface by horizontally stratified porous media. The model output was a time varying water content profile. Then, we compared the water content provided by the model with the water content measurements carried out using the time-lapse Magnetic Resonance Sounding (MRS) method. Each MRS sounding provided a water content profile in the unsaturated zone down to twenty meters. The time shift between the profiles corresponded to the time lapse between individual MRS soundings. We minimized the discrepancy between the observed and the modeled MRS signals by varying hydraulic parameters of soil layers in the water flow model. For measuring and processing MRS data, we used NUMIS MRS instrument and SAMOVAR software. We carried out water flow modeling with HYDRUS-1D software. This paper reports our results and summarizes the limitations of the MRS method applied to water content measurements in the unsaturated zone.
Databáze: OpenAIRE