Orals

HS8.1.1

Development and application of decision support systems to aquifers and underground reservoirs requires reliable and physically based methods to understand main mechanisms and infer key parameters controlling the fate of the underground environment where rocks, liquids, gases and microbes sit in close proximity and interaction. Underground environments are complex and extremely heterogeneous exhibiting variations on a multiplicity of scales. Addressing heterogeneity in all its manifestations is the focus of exciting and intense forefront research and industrial activities. A wide range of innovative methods have recently emerged, from laboratory experiment to field tests, that are capable of quantifying the extent and the interaction between physical, chemical and biological properties of complex structures at different scales, including: (hydro)geophysical methods, innovative sensors or microscopic imaging techniques. In many situations the information conveyed by each measurement may be far from complete so that one is confronted with the problem of fusing data of various nature to achieve the desired level of knowledge. There is the need to understand how data contribute to the reconstruction of the porous medium and the manner in which measurements from different sources can be merged. This problem can be tackled by new stochastic models able to consider processes arising at different scales. This is opening new avenues for the interpretation of observed processes.

The objective of this session is to discuss significant improvement in our understanding of subsurface processes based on innovative methods allowing the quantification of relevant phenomena and their underling mechanisms such as flow, transport, chemically driven or biologically mediated processes in heterogeneous porous and fractured media. In particular, this session is aimed at providing an opportunity for specialists to exchange information and to introduce various existing and novel alternative stochastic models of subsurface flow and transport to the general hydrological community, with critical and timely applications to environmental and industrially relevant settings. Focus is placed on recent key developments in new experimental protocols, novel theoretical aspects and associated computational tools, fate of new contaminants, and field/laboratory applications dealing with accurate and efficient prediction and quantification of uncertainty for flow, conservative and reactive transport processes in the subsurface, in the presence of multiple information at different scales, ranging from the pore level to the intermediate and basin scales.

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Convener: Monica Riva | Co-conveners: Clement Roques, Daniel Fernandez-Garcia, Pietro De Anna, Xavier Sanchez-Vila, Maria V. Klepikova, Alberto Guadagnini
Orals
| Tue, 09 Apr, 14:00–18:00
 
Room 2.44
Posters
| Attendance Tue, 09 Apr, 10:45–12:30
 
Hall A

Tuesday, 9 April 2019 | Room 2.44

Chairperson: Alberto Guadagnini; Clément Roques
14:00–14:15 |
EGU2019-3935
Brian Berkowitz and Alon Nissan
14:15–14:30 |
EGU2019-9857
Gaël Raymond Guédon, Fabio Inzoli, Monica Riva, and Alberto Guadagnini
14:30–14:45 |
EGU2019-6836
Arne Jacob, Frieder Enzmann, Michael Kersten, Christian Hinz, Sina Hale, and Steven Flesch
14:45–15:00 |
EGU2019-17760
Mehrdad Ahkami, Thomas Roesgen, Martin O. Saar, and Xiang-Zhao Kong
15:00–15:15 |
EGU2019-4371
Filippo Miele, Herve Tabuteau, Marco Dentz, and Pietro de Anna
15:30–15:45 |
EGU2019-12231
Sensing coated nanoparticles with spectral induced polarization (SIP) in fully-saturated flow-through column experiments
(withdrawn)
Adrian Mellage, Andrew Holmes, Stuart Linley, Laureline Vallée, Fereidoun Rezanezhad, Neil Thomson, Frank Gu, and Philippe Van Cappellen
Coffee break
Chairperson: Pietro de Anna; Xavier Sanchez-Vila; Maria Klepikova
16:15–16:30 |
EGU2019-4277
Damien Jacob, Frederik Delay, Husam Baalousha, and Philippe Ackerer
16:45–17:00 |
EGU2019-16876
Guillem Sole-Mari, Daniel Fernàndez-Garcia, Diogo Bolster, and Xavier Sanchez-Vila
17:00–17:15 |
EGU2019-17947
Alexandre Puyguiraud, Philippe Gouze, and Marco Dentz
17:15–17:30 |
EGU2019-10668
Selene E. Patani, Giovanni M. Porta, Emanuela Bianchi Janetti, Fadji Z. Maina, and Alberto Guadagnini
17:30–17:45 |
EGU2019-13983
Peter-Lasse Giertzuch, Joseph Doetsch, Mohammadreza Jalali, Alexis Shakas, Cédric Schmelzbach, and Hansruedi Maurer
17:45–18:00 |
EGU2019-12886
Michael Bishof, Jake C. Zappala, Kevin Bailey, Thomas P. O'Connor, and Peter Mueller