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@ARTICLE{Vanderborght:46193,
author = {Vanderborght, J. and Kemna, A. and Hardelauf, H. and
Vereecken, H.},
title = {{P}otential of {E}lectrical {R}esistivity {T}omography to
{I}nfer {A}quifer {T}ransport {C}haracteristics from
{T}racer {S}tudies. {A} {S}ynthetic {C}ase {S}tudy},
journal = {Water resources research},
volume = {41},
issn = {0043-1397},
address = {Washington, DC},
publisher = {AGU},
reportid = {PreJuSER-46193},
pages = {W06013},
year = {2005},
note = {Record converted from VDB: 12.11.2012},
abstract = {[ 1] With time-lapse electrical resistivity tomography (
ERT), transport processes in the subsurface can be imaged
and monitored. The information content of obtained
spatiotemporal data sets opens new ways to characterize
subsurface spatial variability. Difficulties regarding a
quantitative interpretation of the imaged transport may
arise from the fact that data inversion used in ERT is
generally underdetermined and that ERT data acquisition is
often limited to two-dimensional ( 2-D) image planes. To
address this problem, we conducted a numerical tracer
experiment in a synthetic heterogeneous aquifer with preset
variability and spatial correlation of the hydraulic
conductivity and monitored the tracer breakthrough in a 2-D
image plane perpendicular to the mean flow direction using
time-lapse ERT. The tracer breakthrough patterns in the
image plane were interpreted using equivalent transport
models: an equivalent convection dispersion equation to
characterize the spatially averaged breakthrough and a
stream tube model to characterize local breakthrough curves.
Equivalent parameters derived from simulated and from ERT
inverted concentrations showed a good agreement, which
demonstrates the potential of ERT to characterize subsurface
transport. Using first-order approximate solutions of
stochastic flow and transport equations, equivalent model
parameters and their spatial variability were interpreted in
terms of the local-scale dispersion and the spatial
variability of the hydraulic conductivity. The spatial
correlations of the stream tube velocity and of the
hydraulic conductivity were found to be closely related.
Consequently, the hydraulic conductivity spatial correlation
may be inferred from stream tube velocity distributions,
which can be observed with sufficiently high spatial
resolution using ERT.},
keywords = {J (WoSType)},
cin = {ICG-IV},
ddc = {550},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)VDB50},
pnm = {Chemie und Dynamik der Geo-Biosphäre},
pid = {G:(DE-Juel1)FUEK257},
shelfmark = {Environmental Sciences / Limnology / Water Resources},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000230172200003},
doi = {10.1029/2004WR003774},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/46193},
}