Characterizing groundwater flow and heat transport in fractured rock using fiber-optic distributed temperature sensing

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2055-2059

  Read, T ^a   Bour, O ^b   Bense, V ^a   Le Borgne, T ^b   Goderniaux, P ^b,c   Klepikova, M V ^b   Hochreutener, R ^b   Lavenant, N ^b   Boschero, V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

DTS; fiber optic distributed temperature sensing; fractured rock aquifers; heat; solutes; tracer

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED TEMPERATURE SENSING; DTS; FRACTURED ROCK AQUIFERS; SOLUTES; TRACER;

AQUIFERS; BOREHOLES; FRACTURE; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HEAT TRANSFER; HEATING; HYDROGEOLOGY; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE SENSORS;

FIBER OPTICS;

BOREHOLE; FRACTURE ZONE; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HEAT BALANCE; HEAT TRANSFER; HYDROGEOLOGY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; OPTICAL METHOD; ROCK; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EID: 84879977642     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50397     Document Type: Article

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