Inverse modeling for seawater intrusion in coastal aquifers: Insights about parameter sensitivities,variances, correlations and estimation procedures derived from the Henry problem |
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| Authors: | Esteban Sanz Clifford I Voss |
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| Institution: | 1. Institute of Earth Sciences “Jaume Almera” (CSIC), Lluis Solé i Sabaris, s/n, 08028 Barcelona, Spain;2. US Geological Survey, 431 National Center, Reston, VA 20192, USA |
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| Abstract: | Inverse modeling studies employing data collected from the classic Henry seawater intrusion problem give insight into several important aspects of inverse modeling of seawater intrusion problems and effective measurement strategies for estimation of parameters for seawater intrusion. Despite the simplicity of the Henry problem, it embodies the behavior of a typical seawater intrusion situation in a single aquifer. Data collected from the numerical problem solution are employed without added noise in order to focus on the aspects of inverse modeling strategies dictated by the physics of variable-density flow and solute transport during seawater intrusion. Covariances of model parameters that can be estimated are strongly dependent on the physics. The insights gained from this type of analysis may be directly applied to field problems in the presence of data errors, using standard inverse modeling approaches to deal with uncertainty in data. |
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| Keywords: | Variable-density Inverse modeling Seawater intrusion Sensitivity Network design Covariance analysis |
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