Shallow Groundwater Systems

Iah International Contributions to Hydrogeology 18
1. Auflage 1998
ISBN: 978-90-5410-443-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 467 g

Reihe: IAH - International Contributions to Hydrogeology

Shallow groundwater systems are important as a source of water, for sustenance of stream baseflow, and for wetland and riparian ecosystems. They are also central to waterlogging, and dryland and irrigation salinity problems. Response time to hydrologic change and pollutant loadings is fast among shallow aquifiers, and it is important that hydrogeologists and natural resource managers understand the unsaturated zone processes which links human activity at the soil surface and the underlying groundwater, and vice versa. This volume of papers explores practical aspects of soil and surface water interactions with groundwater, including modelling of flow and contaminant transport in the unsaturated and saturated zones.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dillon

Dillon, Peter

Dillon, Peter J.

Simmers, Ian

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geologie Limnologie (Süßwasser)
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Geologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface, Invited review, 1. Shallow groundwater systems, Unsaturated-saturated zone processes, 2. Vertical heterogeneity in soil properties and contaminant transport through soil profiles, 3. Solute transport in the surface soil, 4. Laboratory and field application of a twin disk infiltrometer for measurement of soil hydraulic properties, 5. Seasonal dynamics of stream networks in shallow groundwater systems: A simple analytical approach, 6. Field validation of a water and solute transport model for the unsaturated zone, 7. Characterization of a regional groundwater discharge area by combined analysis of hydrochemistry, remote sensing and groundwater modelling, 8. Comparison of standardized and region-specific methods for assessment of the vulnerability of groundwater to pollution: A case study in an agricultural catchment, 9. The dynamics of groundwater flow in the regolith of Uganda, 10. Minimizing land and river salinization consequences of clearing in the New South Wales Mallee, Groundwater flow and solute transport models, 11. Modelling of mass transport in heterogeneous porous formations using indicator geostatistics, 12. Modelling groundwater and surface water interaction for decision support systems, 13. Coupled air-water flow and contaminant transport in the unsaturated zone: A numerical model, 14. A Laplace transform numerical model for contaminant transport in stratified porous media, 15. Estimation of solute transport parameters in a karstic aquifer using artificial tracer experiments, 16. Solute movement in an unsaturated sand under unstable (fingered) flow conditions: Tracer results, 17. Using HST3D to model flow and tracer transport in an unconfined sandy aquifer with large drawdowns, 18. Density induced flow and solute transport below a saline lake bed

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Dillon leads the Water Use and Reuse research group at CSIRO Land and Water in Adelaide, Southern Australia. He is an international authority onthe management of aquifer recharge and has advised UNESCO and other international agencies. He is Chairman of the IAH Commission on Aquifer Recharge Management.
Dr Ian Simmers is Emeritus Professor of Geography at the Free University of Amsterdam. His research interests were in recharge and flow in porous media as applied to the management and protection of wetlands, on which he has published extensively. He is Editor in Chief of the publication series of IAH.