r a 200 .007 .: +1 734 mich.ed Summary A critical issue facing groundwater flow models is the estimation of representative hydraulic conductivity assigned to the model units. In this study, an experimentbased, high-resolution hydraulic conductivity map offers a test case to evaluate this parameter. Various hydrogeological units are distinguished, each is of irregular shape with distinct heterog...

Coastal restoration is often distrusted and, at best, implemented small scales, which hampers its potential for coastal adaptation. Present technical, economic and management barriers stem from sectoral poorly coordinated local interventions, are insufficiently monitored maintained, precluding the upscaling required to build up confidence in ecosystem restoration. The paper posits that there en...

The multiscale structure of heterogeneous porous media prevents a straightforward numerical treatment of the underlying mathematical ow models. In particular, fully resolved ow simulations are intractable and yet the ne-scale structure of a porous medium may signiicantly innuence the coarse-scale properties of the solution (e.g., average ow rates). Consequently, homogenization or upscaling proc...

In this paper we study the problem of determining the eeective permeability on a coarse scale level of problems with strongly varying and discontinuous coeecients deened on a ne scale. The upscaled permeability is deened as the solution of an optimization problem, where the diierence between the ne scale and the coarse scale velocity eld is minimized. We show that it is not necessary to solve t...

[1] In this study, multiscale permeability upscaling is combined with a sensitivity study of model boundary condition to identify an optimal heterogeneity resolution in developing a reservoir model to represent a deep saline aquifer in CO2 storage simulation. A three‐ dimensional, fully heterogeneous reservoir model is built for a deep saline aquifer in western Wyoming, where each grid cell is ...

Geochemical reaction rate laws are often measured using crushed minerals in well-mixed laboratory systems that are designed to eliminate mass transport limitations. Such rate laws are often used directly in reactive transport models to predict the reaction and transport of chemical species in consolidated porous media found in subsurface environments. Due to the inherent heterogeneities of poro...

The issue for the validation of land surface remote sensing albedo products over rugged terrain is the scale effects between the reference albedo measurements and coarse scale albedo products, which is caused by the complex topography. This paper illustrates a multi-scale validation strategy specified for coarse scale albedo validation over rugged terrain. A Mountain-Radiation-Transfer-based (M...

We propose a new single-phase local transmissibility upscaling method for adapted grids in 3D domains that uses spatially varying and compact multi-point flux approximations (MPFA), based on the VCMP method previously introduced for 2-D Cartesian grids. For each cell face in the coarse upscaled grid, we create a local fine grid region surrounding the face on which we solve three generic local f...

Available ground-based observation networks for the validation of soil moisture remote sensing products are commonly sparse; thus, ground truth determinations are difficult at the validated remote sensing pixel scale. Based on the consistency of temporal trends between ground truth and in situ measurements, it is feasible to estimate ground truth by building a linear relationship between tempor...