Combined inversion of land and marine electrical resistivity tomography for submarine groundwater discharge and saltwater intrusion characterization
Hermans, T.; Paepen, M. (2020). Combined inversion of land and marine electrical resistivity tomography for submarine groundwater discharge and saltwater intrusion characterization. Geophys. Res. Lett. 47(3): e2019GL085877. https://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2019gl085877
In: Geophysical Research Letters. American Geophysical Union: Washington. ISSN 0094-8276; e-ISSN 1944-8007, more
Electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) is particularly suited for the characterization of saltwater intrusion and submarine freshwater discharge, given its sensitivity to the electrical conductivity of pore water. A comprehensive survey might combine land ERT collected during low tide and marine ERT acquired with lower sensitivity due to the presence of a seawater layer, most often, inverted separately. In this contribution, we propose a new methodology to jointly invert land and marine ERT acquired along a same profile, bringing them to a common situation at high tide. We first estimate the electrical resistivity distribution under the land profile. Then, we compute a corrected data set for land ERT, simulating a data set collected with the same level of water as the marine ERT. Finally, both land and marine ERT data sets are inverted jointly. We show that the approach allows to better image the freshwater/saltwater distribution across the shoreline.
Dataset
Hermans, T.; Paepen, M.; Department of Geology. Ghent University: Belgium; (2019): Land and Marine ERT data in the littoral zone of the Westhoek nature reserve. Marine Data Archive., more
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