Автор |
Eggleston, J. R. |
Автор |
Rojstaczer, S. A. |
Автор |
Peirce, J. J. |
Дата выпуска |
1996 |
dc.description |
This study evaluates commonly used geostatistical methods to assess reproduction of hydraulic conductivity (K) structure and sensitivity under limiting amounts of data. Extensive conductivity measurements from the Cape Cod sand and gravel aquifer are used to evaluate two geostatistical estimation methods, conditional mean as an estimate and ordinary kriging, and two stochastic simulation methods, simulated annealing and sequential Gaussian simulation. Our results indicate that for relatively homogeneous sand and gravel aquifers such as the Cape Cod aquifer, neither estimation methods nor stochastic simulation methods give highly accurate point predictions of hydraulic conductivity despite the high density of collected data. Although the stochastic simulation methods yielded higher errors than the estimation methods, the stochastic simulation methods yielded better reproduction of the measured ln (K) distribution and better reproduction of local contrasts in ln (K). The inability of kriging to reproduce high ln (K) values, as reaffirmed by this study, provides a strong instigation for choosing stochastic simulation methods to generate conductivity fields when performing fine‐scale contaminant transport modeling. Results also indicate that estimation error is relatively insensitive to the number of hydraulic conductivity measurements so long as more than a threshold number of data are used to condition the realizations. This threshold occurs for the Cape Cod site when there are approximately three conductivity measurements per integral volume. The lack of improvement with additional data suggests that although fine‐scale hydraulic conductivity structure is evident in the variogram, it is not accurately reproduced by geostatistical estimation methods. If the Cape Cod aquifer spatial conductivity characteristics are indicative of other sand and gravel deposits, then the results on predictive error versus data collection obtained here have significant practical consequences for site characterization. Heavily sampled sand and gravel aquifers, such as Cape Cod and Borden, may have large amounts of redundant data, while in more common real world settings, our results suggest that denser data collection will likely improve understanding of permeability structure. |
Формат |
application.pdf |
Копирайт |
Copyright 1996 by the American Geophysical Union. |
Тема |
HYDROLOGY |
Тема |
Groundwater transport |
Тема |
Groundwater hydrology |
Тема |
Stochastic hydrology |
Название |
Identification of Hydraulic Conductivity Structure in Sand and Gravel Aquifers: Cape Cod Data Set |
Тип |
article |
DOI |
10.1029/96WR00272 |
Electronic ISSN |
1944-7973 |
Print ISSN |
0043-1397 |
Журнал |
Water Resources Research |
Том |
32 |
Первая страница |
1209 |
Последняя страница |
1222 |
Выпуск |
5 |
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