Evaluation of noble gas recharge temperatures in a shallow unconfined aquifer

Ground Water

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 646-659

  Cey, Bradley D ^a   Hudson, G Bryant ^b   Moran, Jean E ^c   Scanlon, Bridget R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE CHANGES; DEGREE OF CERTAINTY; DISSOLVED GAS; DISSOLVED GAS CONCENTRATIONS; EQUILIBRIUM CONCENTRATION; EXCESS AIR; GAS DISSOLUTION; GAS STRIPPING; GOODNESS OF FIT; GROUND WATER RECHARGE; IN-FIELD; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LOW FLUX; NOBLE GAS; NOBLE GAS TEMPERATURES; PALEOCLIMATE RESEARCH; PHYSICALLY BASED; SATURATED ZONE; UNCONFINED AQUIFERS; WATER TABLES;

AQUIFERS; ARCTIC ENGINEERING; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CEMENTS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DEGASSING; DISSOLUTION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; NEON; STRIPPING (DYES); THERMAL EFFECTS; WATER WELLS;

INERT GASES;

INERT GAS; OXYGEN;

AIR TEMPERATURE; DEGASSING; DISSOLVED GAS; ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH; GROUNDWATER; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LAST GLACIAL; NOBLE GAS; PALEOCLIMATE; PHREATIC ZONE; RECHARGE; SHALLOW WATER; UNCONFINED AQUIFER; WATER TABLE; WATER TEMPERATURE; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; TEMPERATURE; WATER SUPPLY;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; NOBLE GASES; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; TEMPERATURE; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 69949177520     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: 17456584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2009.00562.x     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. Aeschbach-Hertig, W., H. El-Gamal, M. Wieser, and L. Palcsu. 2008. Modeling excess air and degassing in groundwater by equilibrium partitioning with a gas phase. Water Resources Research 44, no. 8: W08449, doi:08410.01029/02007WR006454.
2. th Annual V. M. Goldschmidt Conference, Davos, Switzerland. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 66, Supp. 1 [abstracts].
3. Aeschbach-Hertig, W., M. Stute, J.F. Clark, R.F. Reuter, and P. Schlosser. 2002b. A paleotemperature record derived from dissolved noble gases in groundwater of the Aquia Aquifer (Maryland, USA). Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 66, no. 5 : 797 817.
4. Aeschbach-Hertig, W., F. Peeters, U. Beyerle, and R. Kipfer. 2000. Palaeotemperature reconstruction from noble gases in ground water taking into account equilibration with entrapped air. Nature 405, no. 6790 : 1040 1044.
5. Aeschbach-Hertig, W., F. Peeters, U. Beyerle, and R. Kipfer. 1999. Interpretation of dissolved atmospheric noble gases in natural waters. Water Resources Research 35, no. 9 : 2779 2792.
6. Amos, R.T., and K.U. Mayer. 2006. Investigating ebullition in a sand column using dissolved gas analysis and reactive transport modeling. Environmental Science and Technology 40, no. 17 : 5361 5367.
7. Amos, R.T., K.U. Mayer, B.A. Bekins, G.N. Delin, and R.L. Williams. 2005. Use of dissolved and vapor-phase gases to investigate methanogenic degradation of petroleum hydrocarbon contamination in the subsurface. Water Resources Research 41, no. 2: W02001, doi:02010.01029/02004WR003433.
8. Barnston, A.G., and P.T. Schickedanz. 1984. The effect of irrigation on warm season precipitation in the southern Great Plains. Journal of Climate and Applied Meteorology 23, no. 6 : 865 888.
9. Blicher-Mathiesen, G., G.W. McCarty, and L.P. Nielsen. 1998. Denitrification and degassing in groundwater estimated from dissolved dinitrogen and argon. Journal of Hydrology 208, no. 1-2 : 16 24.
10. Bonfils, C., and D. Lobell. 2007. Empirical evidence for a recent slowdown in irrigation-induced cooling. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104, no. 34 : 13582 13587.
11. Brennwald, M.S., R. Kipfer, and D.M. Imboden. 2005. Release of gas bubbles from lake sediment traced by noble gas isotopes in the sediment pore water. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 235, no. 1-2 : 31 44.
12. Brennwald, M.S., M. Hofer, F. Peeters, W. Aeschbach-Hertig, K. Strassmann, R. Kipfer, and D.M. Imboden. 2003. Analysis of dissolved noble gases in the pore water of lacustrine sediments. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods 1, 51 62.
13. Castro, M.C., C.M. Hall, D. Patriarche, P. Goblet, and B.R. Ellis. 2007. A new noble gas paleoclimate record in Texas - Basic assumptions revisited. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 257, no. 1-2 : 170 187.
14. Cey, B.D., G.B. Hudson, J.E. Moran, and B.R. Scanlon. 2008. Impact of artificial recharge on dissolved noble gases in groundwater in California. Environmental Science and Technology 42, no. 4 : 1017 1023.
15. Clever, H.L., ed. 1979. Krypton, Xenon and Radon. Elmsford, New York : Pergamon Press.
16. Coplen, T.B., and C. Kendall. 2000. Stable hydrogen and oxygen isotope ratios for selected sites of the U.S. Geological Survey's NASQAN and benchmark surface-water networks. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 00-160. Reston, Virginia: USGS.
17. 2) as dating tools and hydrologic tracers in shallow groundwater of the Delmarva Peninsula, Atlantic Coastal Plain, United States. Water Resources Research 29, no. 12 : 3837 3860.
18. 18O content of waters from natural sources. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 4, no. 5 : 213 224.
19. Farrera, I., S.P. Harrison, I.C. Prentice, G. Ramstein, J. Guiot, P.J. Bartlein, R. Bonnefille, M. Bush, W. Cramer, U. von Grafenstein, K. Holmgren, H. Hooghiemstra, G. Hope, D. Jolly, S.-E. Lauritzen, Y. Ono, S. Pinot, M. Stute, and G. Yu. 1999. Tropical climates at the last glacial maximum: A new synthesis of terrestrial paleoclimate data. I. Vegetation, lake-levels and geochemistry. Climate Dynamics 15, no. 11 : 823 856.
20. Fortuin, N.P.M., and A. Willemsen. 2005. Exsolution of nitrogen and argon by methanogenesis in Dutch ground water. Journal of Hydrology 301, no. 1-4 : 1 13.
21. Hall, C.M., M.C. Castro, K.C. Lohmann, and L. Ma. 2005. Noble gases and stable isotopes in a shallow aquifer in southern Michigan: Implications for noble gas paleotemperature reconstructions for cool climates. Geophysical Research Letters 32, no. 18: L18404, doi:18410.11029/12005GL023582.
22. Heaton, T.H.E., and J.C. Vogel. 1981 Excess air" in groundwater. Journal of Hydrology 50, no. 1-3 : 201 216.
23. Holocher, J.O., F. Peeters, W. Aeschbach-Hertig, M. Hofer, M. Brennwald, W. Kinzelbach, and R. Kipfer. 2002. Experimental investigations on the formation of excess air in quasi-saturated porous media. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 66, no. 23 : 4103 4117.
24. Istok, J.D., M.M. Park, A.D. Peacock, M. Oostrom, and T.M. Wietsma. 2007. An experimental investigation of nitrogen gas produced during denitrification. Ground Water 45, no. 4 : 461 467.
25. Kipfer, R., W. Aeschbach-Hertig, F. Peeters, and M. Stute. 2002. Noble gases in lakes and ground waters. In Noble Gases in Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry, ed. D. Porcelli, C. J. Ballentine, and R. Wieler, 615 700. Washington, DC : Mineralogical Society of America.
26. Klump, S., Y. Tomonaga, P. Kienzler, W. Kinzelbach, T. Baumann, D.M. Imboden, and R. Kipfer. 2007. Field experiments yield new insights into gas exchange and excess air formation in natural porous media. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 71, no. 6 : 1385 1397.
27. Klump, S., R. Kipfer, O.A. Cirpka, C.F. Harvey, M.S. Brennwald, K.N. Ashfaque, A.B.M. Badruzzaman, S.J. Hug, and D.M. Imboden. 2006. Groundwater dynamics and arsenic mobilization in Bangladesh assessed using noble gases and tritium. Environmental Science and Technology 40, no. 1 : 243 250.
28. Lehmann, B.E., S.N. Davis, and J.T. Fabryka-Martin. 1993. Atmospheric and subsurface sources of stable and radioactive nuclides used for groundwater dating. Water Resources Research 29, no. 7 : 2027 2040.
29. Manning, A.H., and D.K. Solomon. 2005. An integrated environmental tracer approach to characterizing groundwater circulation in a mountain block. Water Resources Research 41, no. 12: W12412, doi:12410.11029/12005WR004178.
30. McNab, W.W., M.J. Singleton, J.E. Moran, and B.K. Esser. 2007. Assessing the impact of animal waste lagoon seepage on the geochemistry of an underlying shallow aquifer. Environmental Science and Technology 41, no. 3 : 753 758.
31. Mookherji, S., G.W. McCarty, and J.T. Angier. 2003. Dissolved gas analysis for assessing the fate of nitrate in wetlands. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 39, no. 2 : 381 387.
32. 22Ne ratios. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 67, no. 4 : 587 600.
33. Puckett, L.J., T.K. Cowdery, P.B. McMahon, L.H. Tornes, and J.D. Stoner. 2002. Using chemical, hydrologic, and age dating analysis to delineate redox processes and flow paths in the riparian zone of a glacial outwash aquifer-stream system. Water Resources Research 38, no. 8 : 1134, doi:1110.1029/2001WR000396.
34. Scanlon, B.R., R.C. Reedy, K.E. Keese, and S.F. Dwyer. 2005. Evaluation of evapotranspirative covers for waste containment in arid and semiarid regions in the southwestern USA. Vadose Zone Journal 4, no. 1 : 55 71.
35. Singleton, M.J., B.K. Esser, J.E. Moran, G.B. Hudson, W.W. McNab, and T. Harter. 2007. Saturated zone denitrification: Potential for natural attenuation of nitrate contamination in shallow groundwater under dairy operations. Environmental Science and Technology 41, no. 3 : 759 765.
36. 4He in groundwater. In Environmental Tracers in Subsurface Hydrology, ed. P.G. Cook and A.L. Herczeg, 425 439. Norwell, Massachusetts : Kluwer Academic Publishers.
37. 3He. In Environmental Tracers in Subsurface Hydrology, ed. P.G. Cook and A.L. Herczeg, 397 424. Norwell, Massachusetts : Kluwer Academic Publishers.
38. Solomon, D.K., R.J. Poreda, S.L. Schiff, and J.A. Cherry. 1992. Tritium and helium 3 as groundwater age tracers in the Borden Aquifer. Water Resources Research 28, no. 3 : 741 755.
39. Stute, M. 1989. Edelgase im Grundwasser - Bestimmung von Paläotemperaturen und Untersuchung der Dynamik von Grundwasserfliessystemen [Noble gases in groundwater - regulation of paleotemperature and investigation of the dynamics of groundwater flow systems]. Ph.D. diss, Universität Heidelberg.
40. Stute, M., and P. Schlosser. 2000. Atmospheric noble gases. In Environmental Tracers in Subsurface Hydrology, ed. P.G. Cook and A.L. Herczeg, 349 377. Norwell, Massachusetts : Kluwer Academic Publishers.
41. Stute, M., M. Forster, H. Frischkorn, A. Serejo, J.F. Clark, P. Schlosser, W.S. Broecker, and G. Bonani. 1995. Cooling of tropical Brazil (5°C) during the last glacial maximum. Science 269, no. 5222 : 379 383.
42. Stute, M., and C. Sonntag. 1992. Palaeotemperatures derived from noble gases dissolved in groundwater and in relation to soil temperature. In Isotopes of Noble Gases as Tracers in Environmental Studies, Vienna, 29 May-2 June 1989, 111 122. http://www.iaea.org/programmes/ripc/ih/publications/stable-isotope.htm.
43. 3He. Water Resources Research 43, no. 10: W10434, doi:10410.11029/12006WR005847.
44. Weiss, R.F. 1971. Solubility of helium and neon in water and seawater. Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data 16, no. 2 : 235 241.
45. Weiss, R.F. 1970. The solubility of nitrogen, oxygen and argon in water and seawater. Deep-Sea Research 17, no. 4 : 721 735.
46. Weiss, R.F., and T.K. Kyser. 1978. Solubility of krypton in water and seawater. Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data 23, no. 1 : 69 72.
47. Weissmann, G.S., S.F. Carle, and G.E. Fogg. 1999. Three-dimensional hydrofacies modeling based on soil surveys and transition probability geostatistics. Water Resources Research 35, no. 6 : 1761 1770.
48. Williamson, A.K., D.E. Prudic, and L.A. Swain. 1989. Ground-water flow in the Central Valley, California. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1401-D. Reston, Virginia: USGS.