The travel times of solutes at the Cape Cod tracer experiment: Data analysis, modeling, and structural parameters inference

Water Resources Research

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1537-1547

  Rubin, Yoram ^a   Ezzedine, Souheil ^a  

^a UC Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; HYDROGEOLOGY; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

AQUIFER; FLUID FLOW; GROUNDWATER; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; TRAVEL TIME;

CAPE COD; MASSACHUSETTS; USA;

GADUS MORHUA;

EID: 0030787072     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96WR00016     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Adams, E. E., and L. W. Gelhar, Field study of dispersion in a heterogeneous aquifer, 2, Spatial moments analysis, Water Resour. Res., 28(12), 3293-3307, 1992.
2. Aris, R., On the dispersion of a solute in a fluid flowing through a tube, Proc. R. Soc. London, Ser. A, 235, 67-78, 1956.
3. Bellin, A., P. Salandin, and A. Rinaldo, Simulation of dispersion in heterogeneous porous formations: Statistics, first-order theories, convergence of computations, Water Resour. Res., 28(9), 2211-2227, 1992.
4. Bellin, A., Y. Rubin, and A. Rinaldo, Eulerian Lagrangian approach for modeling of flow and transport in heterogeneous geological formations, Water Resour. Res., 30(11), 2913-2924, 1994.
5. Bellin, A., G. Dagan, and Y. Rubin, The impact of head gradient transients in transport in heterogeneous formations: Applications to the Borden site, Water Resour. Res., 32(9), 2705-2713, 1996.
6. Carrera, J., A. Mediana, and X. Sanchez-Vila, Geostatistical formulations of groundwater coupled inverse problems, in Quantitative Geology and Geostatistics, vol. 5, pp. 779-792, Kluwer Acad., Norwell, Mass, 1993.
7. Cvetkovic, V., and G. Dagan, Transport of kinetically sorbing solutes by steady random velocity in heterogeneous porous formations, J. Fluid Mech., 265, 189-215, 1994.
8. Cvetkovic, V., A. M. Shapiro, and G. Dagan, A solute flux approach to transport in heterogeneous formations, 2, Uncertainty analysis, Water Resour. Res., 28(5), 1377-1388, 1992.
9. Dagan, G., Flow and Transport in Porous Media, 465 pp., Springer-Verlag, New York, 1989.
10. Dagan, G., Dispersion of a passive solute in non-ergodic transport by steady velocity fields in heterogeneous formations, J. Fluid Mech., 233, 197-210, 1991.
11. Dagan, G., and V. Nguyen, A comparison of travel time and concentration approaches to modeling transport by groundwater, J. Contam. Hydrol., 4, 79-91, 1989.
12. Dagan, G., V. Cvetkovic, and A. Shapiro, A solute flux approach to transport in heterogeneous formations, 1, The general framework, Water Resour. Res., 28(5), 1369-1376, 1992.
13. Dagan, G., A. Bellin, and Y. Rubin, Lagrangian analysis of transport in heterogeneous formations under transient flow conditions, Water Resour. Res., 32(4), 891-899, 1996.
14. Deng, F.-W., and J. H. Cushman, On higher order corrections to the flow velocity covariance tensor, Water Resour. Res., 31(7), 1659-1672, 1995.
15. Deng, F.-W., J. H. Cushman, and J. W. Delleur, Adaptive estimation of the log fluctuating conductivity from the tracer data at the Cape Cod site, Water Resour. Res., 29(12), 4011-4018, 1993.
16. Desbarats, A., Macrodispersion in sand-shale sequences, Water Resour. Res., 26(1), 153-164, 1990.
17. Desbarats, A., and M. Srivastava, Geostatistical characterization of groundwater flow parameters in a simulated aquifer, Water Resour. Res., 27(5), 687-698, 1991.
18. Egglestone, J. R., S. A. Rojstaczer, and J. J. Pierce, Identification of hydraulic conductivity structure in sand and gravel aquifers: Cape Cod data set, Water Resour. Res., 32(5), 1209-1222, 1996.
19. Ezzedine, S., and Y. Rubin, A geostatistical approach to the conditional estimation of spatially distributed solute concentration and notes on the use of tracer data in the inverse problem. Water Resour. Res., 32(4), 853-862, 1996.
20. Fiori, A., Finite Peclet extensions of Dagan's solutions to transport in anisotropic heterogeneous formations, Water Resour. Res., 32(1), 193-198, 1996.
21. Freyberg, D. L., A natural gradient experiment on solute transport in a sand aquifer, 2, Spatial moments and the advection and dispersion of nonreactive tracers, Water Resour. Res., 22(13), 2031-2046, 1986.
22. Garabedian, S. P., D. R. LeBlanc, L. W. Gelhar, and M. A. Celia, Large-scale natural gradient tracer test in sand and gravel, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 2, Analysis of spatial moments for a nonreactive tracer, Water Resour. Res., 27(5), 911-924, 1991.
23. Harvey, C. F., and S. M. Gorelick, Temporal moment-generating equations: Modeling transport and mass transfer in heterogeneous aquifers, Water Resour. Res., 31(8), 1895-1911, 1995a.
24. Harvey, C. F., and S. M. Gorelick, Mapping hydraulic conductivity-sequential conditioning with measurements of solute arrival time, hydraulic head, and local conductivity, Water Resour. Res., 31(7), 1615-1626, 1995b.
25. Hess, K. M., S. H. Wolf, and M. A. Celia, Large-scale natural gradient tracer test in sand and gravel, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 3, Hydraulic conductivity, variability, and calculated macrodispersivities, Water Resour. Res., 28(8), 2011-2027, 1992.
26. Hsu, K.-C., D. Zhang, and S. P. Neuman, Higher-order effects on flow and transport in randomly heterogeneous porous media, Water Resour. Res., 32(3), 571-582, 1996.
27. Leblanc, D. R., S. P. Garabedian, K. M. Hess, L. W. Gelhar, R. D. Quadri, K. G. Stollenwerk, and W. W. Wood, Large-scale natural gradient tracer test in sand and gravel, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 1, Experimental design and observed tracer movement, Water Resour. Res., 27(5), 895-910, 1991.
28. Naff, R. L., Arrival times and temporal moments of breakthrough curves for an imperfectly stratified aquifer, Water Resour. Res., 28(1), 53-68, 1992.
29. Neuman, S. P., Universal scaling of hydraulic conductivities and dispersivities in geologic media, Water Resour. Res., 26(8), 1749-1758, 1990.
30. Neuman, S. P., and Y. K. Zhang, A quasi-linear theory of non-Fickian and Fickian subsurface dispersion, 1, Theoretical analysis with applications to isotropic media, Water Resour. Res., 26(5), 887-902, 1990.
31. Ptak, T., and G. Teutsch, Forced and natural gradient tracer tests in a highly heterogeneous porous aquifer: Instrumentation and measurements, J. Hydrol., 159, 79-104, 1994.
32. Rubin, Y., Stochastic analysis of macrodispersion in heterogeneous porous media, Water Resour. Res., 26(1), 133-144, 1990.
33. Rubin, Y., and A. Bellin, The effects of recharge on flow nonuniformity and macrodispersion, Water Resour. Res., 30(4), 939-948, 1994.
34. Rubin, Y., and G. Dagan, Conditional estimation of solute travel time in heterogeneous formations: Impact of the transmissivity measurements, Water Resour. Res., 28(4), 1033-1040, 1992a.
35. Rubin, Y., and G. Dagan, A note on head and velocity covariances in three-dimensional flow through heterogeneous anisotropic porous media, Water Resour. Res., 28(5), 1463-1470, 1992b.
36. Rubin, Y., A. Bellin, and M. A. Cushey, Modeling of transport in groundwater for environmental risk assessment, Stochastic Hydrol. Hydraul., 8(1), 57-78, 1994.
37. Samper, J., J. Carrera, G. Galarza, and A. Medina, Application of an automatic calibration technique to model an alluvial aquifer: Reliability, in Groundwater Modeling, IAHS Publ., 195, 87-95, 1990.
38. Selroos, J. O., and V. Cvetkovic, Modeling solute advection coupled with sorption kinetics in heterogeneous formations, Water Resour. Res., 28(5), 1271-1278, 1992.
39. Simmons, C. S., A stochastic convective transport representation of dispersion in one-dimensional porous media system, Water Resour. Res., 18(6), 1193-1214, 1982.
40. Woodbury, A. D., and E. A. Sudicky, The geostatistical characterization of the Borden aquifer, Water Resour. Res., 27(4), 533-546, 1991.