{"title":"Applications of hydrogeophysics in characterization of subsurface architecture and contaminant plumes","authors":"Yangfan Deng, Xiaoqing Shi, Jichun Wu","doi":"10.26599/jgse.2016.9280040","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Geophysical methods have been applied to a wide range of hydrogeological problems. With improvement in geophysical inversion algorithms and measurement tools, significant achievements have been made in the characterization of subsurface architecture, time-lapse monitoring of hydrogeological process and contaminant plumes delineation. In this paper, we summarize the geophysical methods that are most widely used in hydrogeology including Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT), Induced Polarization (IP), Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) and Electromagnetic Induction (EMI). Three examples including lab and field works are used to demonstrate current application of geophysical methods for characterizing subsurface architecture and contaminant plumes. Though great progress has been made in hydrogeohysics over the last few decades at home and abroad, challenges still remain in practical applications. More recently, hydrogeophysics continues to develop in the areas of establishment of hydrogeophysical models, large-scale architecture characterization, uncertainty analysis, biogeochemical process monitoring and ecosystem science.","PeriodicalId":43567,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Groundwater Science and Engineering","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7000,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Groundwater Science and Engineering","FirstCategoryId":"89","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.26599/jgse.2016.9280040","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"WATER RESOURCES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Geophysical methods have been applied to a wide range of hydrogeological problems. With improvement in geophysical inversion algorithms and measurement tools, significant achievements have been made in the characterization of subsurface architecture, time-lapse monitoring of hydrogeological process and contaminant plumes delineation. In this paper, we summarize the geophysical methods that are most widely used in hydrogeology including Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT), Induced Polarization (IP), Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) and Electromagnetic Induction (EMI). Three examples including lab and field works are used to demonstrate current application of geophysical methods for characterizing subsurface architecture and contaminant plumes. Though great progress has been made in hydrogeohysics over the last few decades at home and abroad, challenges still remain in practical applications. More recently, hydrogeophysics continues to develop in the areas of establishment of hydrogeophysical models, large-scale architecture characterization, uncertainty analysis, biogeochemical process monitoring and ecosystem science.
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It publishes original, innovative, and integrative research in groundwater science and engineering with a focus on hydrogeology, environmental geology, groundwater resources, agriculture and groundwater, groundwater resources and ecology, groundwater and geologic environment, groundwater circulation, groundwater pollution, groundwater exploitation and utilization, hydrogeological standards and methods, groundwater information science, climate change and groundwater. The Editorial Board is composed of more than sixty world-renowned experts and scholars, 47% of whom are foreign scientists. Up to now, the foreign authors contributed papers are from USA, Japan, Canada, Australia, Russia, Mongolia, Thailand and Vietnam.