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@ARTICLE{Nguyen:6379,
author = {Nguyen, F. and Kemna, A. and Antonsson, A. and Engesgaard,
P. and Kuras, O. and Ogilvy, R. and Gisbert, J. and Jorreto,
S. and Pulido-Bosch, A.},
title = {{C}haracterization of seawater intrusion using 2{D}
electrical imaging},
journal = {Near surface geophysics},
volume = {7},
issn = {1569-4445},
address = {Houten},
publisher = {EAGE},
reportid = {PreJuSER-6379},
year = {2009},
note = {We would like to thank the associate editor Lee Slater and
the two reviewers Kamini Singha and Mark Goldman for their
pertinent comments and suggestions, which have greatly
improved this manuscript. We also thank Frederic Day-Lewis
for fruitful email exchanges. We would like also to thank
all the people who contributed to this work on the field, in
Almeria and in the laboratory of the Forschungszentrum
Juelich. This work is part of the EU project ALERT
(GOCE-CT-2004-505329). We thank also the Fonds de la
Recherche Scientifique - FNRS (Belgium) and the University
of Copenhagen for providing logistical support to this
research.},
abstract = {We have investigated the potential of 2D electrical imaging
for the characterization of seawater intrusion using field
data from a site in Almeria, SE Spain. Numerical simulations
have been run for several scenarios, with a hydrogeological
model reflecting the local site conditions. The simulations
showed that only the lower salt concentrations of the
seawater-freshwater transition zone could be recovered, due
to the loss of resolution with depth. We quantified this
capability in terms of the cumulative sensitivity associated
with the measurement setup and showed that the mismatch
between the targeted and imaged parameter values occurs from
a certain sensitivity threshold. Similarly, heterogeneity
may only be determined accurately if located in an
adequately sensitive area. At the field site, we identified
seawater intrusion at the scale of a few kilometres down to
a hundred metres. Borehole logs show a remarkable
correlation with the image obtained from surface data but
indicate that the electrically derived mass fraction of pure
seawater could not be recovered due to the discrepancy
between the in-situ and laboratory-derived petrophysical
relationships. Surface-to-hole inversion results suggest
that the laterally varying resolution pattern associated
with such a setup dominates the image characteristics
compared to the laterally more homogeneous resolution
pattern of surface only inversion results and hence,
surface-to-hole images are not easily interpretable in terms
of larger-scale features. Our results indicate that
electrical imaging can be used to constrain seawater
intrusion models if image appraisal tools are appropriately
used to quantify the spatial variation of sensitivity and
resolution. The most crucial limitation is probably the
apparent non-stationarity of the petrophysical relationship
during the imaging process.},
keywords = {J (WoSType)},
cin = {ICG-4},
ddc = {550},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)VDB793},
pnm = {Terrestrische Umwelt},
pid = {G:(DE-Juel1)FUEK407},
shelfmark = {Geochemistry $\&$ Geophysics},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000270895200008},
doi = {10.3997/1873-0604.2009025},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/6379},
}