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AN: H11E-0897    [PDF]
TI: Linking the Model Validation Process and Long-Term Monitoring Design for Central Nevada Test Area
AU: * Hassan, A E
EM: hassan@dri.edu
AF: Desert Research Institute, 755 E. Flamingo Road, Las Vegas, NV 89119 United States
AU: * Hassan, A E
EM: hassan@dri.edu
AF: Irrigation and Hydraulics Dept., Cairo University, Gamaa Street, Giza, 12613 Egypt
AB: A multi-staged approach for development of the long-term monitoring well network for the Central Nevada Test Area (CNTA) is proposed. This multi-staged approach will proceed in parallel with the validation efforts for the groundwater flow and transport model of CNTA. The first stage of the plan is to use the hydrogeologic insight combined with the simulation and probability-based approaches to select the first set of monitoring wells that will serve two purposes or objectives. The first high-priority objective is the collection of data for the initial evaluation of the groundwater flow and transport model. The selection criteria will thus be tailored more toward meeting this objective and facilitating the collection of the most relevant data from the most important locations for evaluating the different model components. The second objective, which has a lower priority, is to place this set of wells in locations likely to encounter fast migration pathways, and thus benefiting from the wells in the long-term \&a
DE: 1829 Groundwater hydrology
DE: 1831 Groundwater quality
DE: 1832 Groundwater transport
DE: 3210 Modeling
SC: Hydrology [H]
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting