Estimation of specific yield and its variability by electrical resistivity tomography

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Dietrich, Sebastián; Carrera, Jesús; Weinzettel, Pablo; Sierra, Leonardo
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2018
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Specific yield (Sy) is defined as the average volume of water that can be drained, per unit surface of aquifer per unit drop of head. This parameter is of critical relevance for groundwater resources assessment, but its estimation suffers from numerous difficulties, including spatial variability, hysteresis, dependence on depth to water table, or delayed drainage. As a result, no widely accepted method is available for its estimation. Here we show that most of these difficulties can be overcome by using time-lapse electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) to map water content variations in response to phreatic level fluctuations. We applied the method to a synthetic example and to a real site in Argentina. Results demonstrate that the approach is robust and provides a picture of how, how much and where water is being released from the soil when aquifer heads drop, which is the ultimate goal of Sy concept. ERT produced some oscillations in estimated water contents, which we attribute to inversion artifacts. Still, the error analysis and the synthetic example suggest that the impact of spurious oscillations tends to cancel out during estimation of Sy, which supports the robustness of the method. Estimated Sy is sensitive to the petrophysical law. If the slope of this law is inadequate, calculated values of Sy may be biased, but their variability patterns are well captured by the method. What is clear is that Sy is a spatially and temporally variable parameter, whose estimation is difficult. ERT represents a possible avenue to evaluate Sy and its variability.
Fil: Dietrich, Sebastián. Comisión de Investigaciones Científicas de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Instituto de Hidrología de Llanuras "Dr. Eduardo Jorge Usunoff". - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Tandil. Instituto de Hidrología de Llanuras "Dr. Eduardo Jorge Usunoff". - Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Instituto de Hidrología de Llanuras "Dr. Eduardo Jorge Usunoff"; Argentina
Fil: Carrera, Jesús. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas; España
Fil: Weinzettel, Pablo. Comisión de Investigaciones Científicas de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Instituto de Hidrología de Llanuras "Dr. Eduardo Jorge Usunoff". - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Tandil. Instituto de Hidrología de Llanuras "Dr. Eduardo Jorge Usunoff". - Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Instituto de Hidrología de Llanuras "Dr. Eduardo Jorge Usunoff"; Argentina
Fil: Sierra, Leonardo. Comisión de Investigaciones Científicas de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Instituto de Hidrología de Llanuras "Dr. Eduardo Jorge Usunoff". - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Tandil. Instituto de Hidrología de Llanuras "Dr. Eduardo Jorge Usunoff". - Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Instituto de Hidrología de Llanuras "Dr. Eduardo Jorge Usunoff"; Argentina
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ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY TOMOGRAPHY
INVERSION OF RESISTIVITY DATA
SOIL HETEROGENEITY
SOIL MOISTURE
SPECIFIC YIELD
UNSATURATED ZONE
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spelling Estimation of specific yield and its variability by electrical resistivity tomographyDietrich, SebastiánCarrera, JesúsWeinzettel, PabloSierra, LeonardoELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY TOMOGRAPHYINVERSION OF RESISTIVITY DATASOIL HETEROGENEITYSOIL MOISTURESPECIFIC YIELDUNSATURATED ZONEhttps://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1Specific yield (Sy) is defined as the average volume of water that can be drained, per unit surface of aquifer per unit drop of head. This parameter is of critical relevance for groundwater resources assessment, but its estimation suffers from numerous difficulties, including spatial variability, hysteresis, dependence on depth to water table, or delayed drainage. As a result, no widely accepted method is available for its estimation. Here we show that most of these difficulties can be overcome by using time-lapse electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) to map water content variations in response to phreatic level fluctuations. We applied the method to a synthetic example and to a real site in Argentina. Results demonstrate that the approach is robust and provides a picture of how, how much and where water is being released from the soil when aquifer heads drop, which is the ultimate goal of Sy concept. ERT produced some oscillations in estimated water contents, which we attribute to inversion artifacts. Still, the error analysis and the synthetic example suggest that the impact of spurious oscillations tends to cancel out during estimation of Sy, which supports the robustness of the method. Estimated Sy is sensitive to the petrophysical law. If the slope of this law is inadequate, calculated values of Sy may be biased, but their variability patterns are well captured by the method. What is clear is that Sy is a spatially and temporally variable parameter, whose estimation is difficult. ERT represents a possible avenue to evaluate Sy and its variability.Fil: Dietrich, Sebastián. Comisión de Investigaciones Científicas de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Instituto de Hidrología de Llanuras "Dr. Eduardo Jorge Usunoff". - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Tandil. Instituto de Hidrología de Llanuras "Dr. Eduardo Jorge Usunoff". - Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Instituto de Hidrología de Llanuras "Dr. Eduardo Jorge Usunoff"; ArgentinaFil: Carrera, Jesús. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas; EspañaFil: Weinzettel, Pablo. Comisión de Investigaciones Científicas de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Instituto de Hidrología de Llanuras "Dr. Eduardo Jorge Usunoff". - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Tandil. Instituto de Hidrología de Llanuras "Dr. Eduardo Jorge Usunoff". - Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Instituto de Hidrología de Llanuras "Dr. Eduardo Jorge Usunoff"; ArgentinaFil: Sierra, Leonardo. Comisión de Investigaciones Científicas de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Instituto de Hidrología de Llanuras "Dr. Eduardo Jorge Usunoff". - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Tandil. Instituto de Hidrología de Llanuras "Dr. Eduardo Jorge Usunoff". - Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Instituto de Hidrología de Llanuras "Dr. Eduardo Jorge Usunoff"; ArgentinaAmerican Geophysical Union2018-10info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:ar-repo/semantics/articuloapplication/pdfapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11336/153886Dietrich, Sebastián; Carrera, Jesús; Weinzettel, Pablo; Sierra, Leonardo; Estimation of specific yield and its variability by electrical resistivity tomography; American Geophysical Union; Water Resources Research; 54; 11; 10-2018; 8653-86730043-1397CONICET DigitalCONICETenginfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/http://doi.wiley.com/10.1029/2018WR022938info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1029/2018WR022938info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ar/reponame:CONICET Digital (CONICET)instname:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas2025-10-22T11:40:02Zoai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/153886instacron:CONICETInstitucionalhttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/Organismo científico-tecnológicoNo correspondehttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/oai/requestdasensio@conicet.gov.ar; lcarlino@conicet.gov.arArgentinaNo correspondeNo correspondeNo correspondeopendoar:34982025-10-22 11:40:02.847CONICET Digital (CONICET) - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicasfalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Estimation of specific yield and its variability by electrical resistivity tomography
title Estimation of specific yield and its variability by electrical resistivity tomography
spellingShingle Estimation of specific yield and its variability by electrical resistivity tomography
Dietrich, Sebastián
ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY TOMOGRAPHY
INVERSION OF RESISTIVITY DATA
SOIL HETEROGENEITY
SOIL MOISTURE
SPECIFIC YIELD
UNSATURATED ZONE
title_short Estimation of specific yield and its variability by electrical resistivity tomography
title_full Estimation of specific yield and its variability by electrical resistivity tomography
title_fullStr Estimation of specific yield and its variability by electrical resistivity tomography
title_full_unstemmed Estimation of specific yield and its variability by electrical resistivity tomography
title_sort Estimation of specific yield and its variability by electrical resistivity tomography
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Dietrich, Sebastián
Carrera, Jesús
Weinzettel, Pablo
Sierra, Leonardo
author Dietrich, Sebastián
author_facet Dietrich, Sebastián
Carrera, Jesús
Weinzettel, Pablo
Sierra, Leonardo
author_role author
author2 Carrera, Jesús
Weinzettel, Pablo
Sierra, Leonardo
author2_role author
author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY TOMOGRAPHY
INVERSION OF RESISTIVITY DATA
SOIL HETEROGENEITY
SOIL MOISTURE
SPECIFIC YIELD
UNSATURATED ZONE
topic ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY TOMOGRAPHY
INVERSION OF RESISTIVITY DATA
SOIL HETEROGENEITY
SOIL MOISTURE
SPECIFIC YIELD
UNSATURATED ZONE
purl_subject.fl_str_mv https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv Specific yield (Sy) is defined as the average volume of water that can be drained, per unit surface of aquifer per unit drop of head. This parameter is of critical relevance for groundwater resources assessment, but its estimation suffers from numerous difficulties, including spatial variability, hysteresis, dependence on depth to water table, or delayed drainage. As a result, no widely accepted method is available for its estimation. Here we show that most of these difficulties can be overcome by using time-lapse electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) to map water content variations in response to phreatic level fluctuations. We applied the method to a synthetic example and to a real site in Argentina. Results demonstrate that the approach is robust and provides a picture of how, how much and where water is being released from the soil when aquifer heads drop, which is the ultimate goal of Sy concept. ERT produced some oscillations in estimated water contents, which we attribute to inversion artifacts. Still, the error analysis and the synthetic example suggest that the impact of spurious oscillations tends to cancel out during estimation of Sy, which supports the robustness of the method. Estimated Sy is sensitive to the petrophysical law. If the slope of this law is inadequate, calculated values of Sy may be biased, but their variability patterns are well captured by the method. What is clear is that Sy is a spatially and temporally variable parameter, whose estimation is difficult. ERT represents a possible avenue to evaluate Sy and its variability.
Fil: Dietrich, Sebastián. Comisión de Investigaciones Científicas de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Instituto de Hidrología de Llanuras "Dr. Eduardo Jorge Usunoff". - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Tandil. Instituto de Hidrología de Llanuras "Dr. Eduardo Jorge Usunoff". - Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Instituto de Hidrología de Llanuras "Dr. Eduardo Jorge Usunoff"; Argentina
Fil: Carrera, Jesús. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas; España
Fil: Weinzettel, Pablo. Comisión de Investigaciones Científicas de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Instituto de Hidrología de Llanuras "Dr. Eduardo Jorge Usunoff". - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Tandil. Instituto de Hidrología de Llanuras "Dr. Eduardo Jorge Usunoff". - Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Instituto de Hidrología de Llanuras "Dr. Eduardo Jorge Usunoff"; Argentina
Fil: Sierra, Leonardo. Comisión de Investigaciones Científicas de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Instituto de Hidrología de Llanuras "Dr. Eduardo Jorge Usunoff". - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Tandil. Instituto de Hidrología de Llanuras "Dr. Eduardo Jorge Usunoff". - Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Instituto de Hidrología de Llanuras "Dr. Eduardo Jorge Usunoff"; Argentina
description Specific yield (Sy) is defined as the average volume of water that can be drained, per unit surface of aquifer per unit drop of head. This parameter is of critical relevance for groundwater resources assessment, but its estimation suffers from numerous difficulties, including spatial variability, hysteresis, dependence on depth to water table, or delayed drainage. As a result, no widely accepted method is available for its estimation. Here we show that most of these difficulties can be overcome by using time-lapse electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) to map water content variations in response to phreatic level fluctuations. We applied the method to a synthetic example and to a real site in Argentina. Results demonstrate that the approach is robust and provides a picture of how, how much and where water is being released from the soil when aquifer heads drop, which is the ultimate goal of Sy concept. ERT produced some oscillations in estimated water contents, which we attribute to inversion artifacts. Still, the error analysis and the synthetic example suggest that the impact of spurious oscillations tends to cancel out during estimation of Sy, which supports the robustness of the method. Estimated Sy is sensitive to the petrophysical law. If the slope of this law is inadequate, calculated values of Sy may be biased, but their variability patterns are well captured by the method. What is clear is that Sy is a spatially and temporally variable parameter, whose estimation is difficult. ERT represents a possible avenue to evaluate Sy and its variability.
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