The occurrence of halogenated volatile organic compounds (HVOCs) in groundwater beneath several municipal solid waste landfills in Tucson, Arizona in the absence of significant liquid phase movement has suggested that vapor phase transport may be the principal process transporting HVOCs from the vadose zone into the water table. The results of mathematical modeling of these transport processes ...

Methods based on two-point geostatistics have been routinely used to interpolate random variables such as groundwater level and concentration and to estimate their values at un-sampled locations. These methods use the observed data to analyze spatial two-point correlations and ignore the higher order moments that may play a key role in the characterization of complex patterns. In this work, a m...

Contamination of groundwater by naturally occurring arsenic has recently become a disturbing environmental problem in Viterbo area, Central Italy. Arsenic concentrations in most of the public supply networks exceed the maximum allowable limit of 10 μg/l (WHO) for drinking water. The primary purpose of this paper is to obtain a better understanding of the factors contributing to the high levels ...

Farmers in the Indus Basin, Pakistan have generally switched to groundwater for additional water supplies due to the irregular supply of irrigation water; currently over 50% of the agricultural land in the basin is at least partially irrigated by tubewells. These wells pump fresh groundwater, which essentially is the result of massive leakage from irrigation canals into the originally saltwater...

simulation of groundwater fluctuations plays a crucial role in management of watersheds and water demand balancing. recently, wavelet analysis has been used widely in time series decomposition and coupling with neural networks for hydrological modeling. in this paper, the ability of the wavelet-dynamic artificial neural networks (w-ann) model was applied in forecasting one-month-ahead of ground...

[1] Yearly rainfall totals in wet-to-dry climate transition zones show marked multiyear periods of dry and wet anomalies. These are said to originate from large-scale external forcings (e.g. SST anomalies) and enhanced by land-atmosphere coupling through soil moisture, vegetation and surface albedo. We explore the hypothesis that the degree of persistence in rainfall may be partly caused by gro...

We develop and implement the groundwater model, Saturated/Unsaturated Flow and Transport in 3D (SUFT3D), to integrate water quantity/quality data and simulations with models of other hydrologic cycle components, namely, rivers and the ocean. This work was done as part of the Sea Air Land Modeling Operational Network (SALMON) project supported by the IBM International Foundation through its Envi...