Travel-time-based thermal tracer tomography

Somogyvári, Márk; Bayer, Peter; Brauchler, Ralf

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-1885-2016

Articles | Volume 20, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-1885-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-1885-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 20, issue 5

Research article

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12 May 2016

Research article |

| 12 May 2016

Travel-time-based thermal tracer tomography

Márk Somogyvári, Peter Bayer, and Ralf Brauchler

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Final revised paper (published on 12 May 2016)
Preprint (discussion started on 19 Jan 2016)

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RC1: 'Revisions on "Travel time based thermal tracer tomography" by Somogyvari et al. in HESSD', Anonymous Referee #1, 16 Feb 2016
- AC1: 'Reply to the review of Referee #1', Márk Somogyvári, 29 Mar 2016
RC2: 'Review HESS 509', Anonymous Referee #2, 16 Feb 2016
- AC2: 'Reply to the review of Referee #2', Márk Somogyvári, 29 Mar 2016

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish as is (14 Apr 2016) by Sabine Attinger

AR by Márk Somogyvári on behalf of the Authors (17 Apr 2016)

Short summary

A new innovative method of aquifer characterization is presented, using tomographic thermal tracer tests to map the hydraulic conductivity distribution. The travel times of the heated water between different sources and receivers are used in the inversion process following an analog procedure with hydraulic tomography. The developed method is a fast and robust alternative of model calibration. The method is tested on a virtual aquifer and shows applicability under a broad range of conditions.