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Interpreting Repeated Temperature‐Depth Profiles for Groundwater Flow

Victor Bense, Barret L. Kurylyk, Jonathan van Daal, Martine van der Ploeg, Sean K. Carey

Water Resources Research · 2017

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Abstract Temperature can be used to trace groundwater flows due to thermal disturbances of subsurface advection. Prior hydrogeological studies that have used temperature‐depth profiles to estimate vertical groundwater fluxes have either ignored the influence of climate change by employing steady‐state analytical solutions or applied transient techniques to study temperature‐depth profiles recorded at only a single point in time. Transient analyses of a single profile are predicated on the accurate determination of an unknown profile at some time in the past to form the initial condition. In this study, we use both analytical solutions and a numerical model to demonstrate that boreholes with temperature‐depth profiles recorded at multiple times can be analyzed to either overcome the uncerta

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Peer-reviewed study
DOI
10.1002/2017wr021496
Catalogue ID
BFmoakvrxk-7ndg0g
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