H085
Rapid unsaturated zone flow in porous and fractured media
Session ID#: 157905
Session Description:
The unsaturated zone has a crucial role in subsurface processes that in turn impact soil moisture availability, groundwater quality and quantity, and ecosystem function. Water that infiltrates at the land surface will be transported by various mechanisms through the unsaturated zone. For example, water may move rapidly through vertical preferential flow paths, laterally along lithological boundaries, or more slowly as diffuse flow through soil or rock matrix. Predicting where water goes and how fast is crucial for aquifer recharge, contaminant transport, hazards, and other hydrologic issues. Different theoretical and experimental approaches have been developed to increase knowledge of this portion of the subsurface but still there are gaps in comprehension and quantification of flow processes that occur in the unsaturated zone. The session encourages contributions addressing this topic that use approaches such as unique case studies, innovative methodologies, or novel field and laboratory tests so to spark discussion on moving unsaturated zone science forward. Contributions of both theoretical and experimental studies are welcome to increase the knowledge of how fluids and substances move in the unsaturated zone differently from the traditional theories and tools. Particularly welcome are contributions dealing with preferential flow, new experimental observation tools for their evidence and new theoretical formulation for their prediction. Also studies other studies are welcome to provide an overview of newest approaches to better understand mechanisms that act in the unsaturated zone.
Index Terms:
1838 Infiltration [HYDROLOGY]
1866 Soil moisture [HYDROLOGY]
1875 Vadose zone [HYDROLOGY]
1880 Water management [HYDROLOGY]
Primary Convener: Kimberlie S Perkins, USGS, Menlo Park, United States and Lorenzo Di Carlo
Convener: Maria Clementina Clementina Caputo, CNR Water Research Institute, Bari, Italy and Lorenzo Di Carlo
Impact of Capillarity on Tidal Response of Groundwater in An Unconfined Aquifer with Finite Thickness (1047591)
Jiangwei Zhang, Southern University of Science and Technolog, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shenzhen, China, Xiuyu Liang, Southern University of Science and Technology, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shenzhen, China and Chi-Yuen Wang, University of California Berkeley, Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, United States
Groundwater and Soil Moisture Dynamics in Hillslopes with Contrast Soil Depths and Topography (1105231)
Eilif Kurnia Deda Djamres1, Takahiro Sayama2, Eva Yamamoto2, Yoshito Sugawara2, Kodai Yamamoto2 and Apip Apip3, (1)Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, (2)Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, (3)Research Center for Limnology, National Research & Innovation Agency (BRIN), Bogor, Indonesia
Direct Measurements of Hydraulic Conductivity of Carbonate Porous Rocks at Sample Scale by Evaporation and Quasi-Steady Centrifuge (QSC) Methods (1105826)
Maria Clementina Clementina Caputo, CNR Water Research Institute, Bari, Italy, Antonietta Celeste Turturro, CNR - Water Research Institute, Bari, Italy, Horst Herbert Gerke, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Working Group “Hydropedology”, Research Area 1 “Landscape Functioning,, Müncheberg, Germany and Kimberlie S Perkins, USGS, Menlo Park, United States
Persistent Groundwater Reduction Induced by Dynamic Stresses From the 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquake Observed Within A Fractured Aquifer Near Ash Meadows, Nevada, USA. (1139716)
Ruei-Jiun Hung, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States; San Diego State University, San Diego, United States and Matthew Weingarten, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, United States
Visualizing Two-Phase Fluid Flow in Fractured Porous Media (1190031)
Russell L Detwiler1, Zhen Liao2, Esther Cookson3, Wanjun Lei4 and Yifeng Chen4, (1)University of California Irvine, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, United States, (2)State Key Laboratory of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, (3)University of California Irvine, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, CA, United States, (4)State Key Laboratory of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
Application of Measured Soil Properties in Hydrological Model in The Humid Tropics for Floods and Fires Risk Management (1200849)
Eva Yamamoto1, Takahiro Sayama1, Yoshito Sugawara1, Kodai Yamamoto1 and Apip Apip2, (1)Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, (2)Research Center for Limnology, National Research & Innovation Agency (BRIN), Bogor, Indonesia
