A review of specific storage in aquifers

X Kuang, JJ Jiao, C Zheng, JA Cherry, H Li - Journal of Hydrology, 2020 - Elsevier
Specific storage, which represents the aquifer's capacity to release water from or take into
storage when water level changes, is an important aquifer property required for transient …

Utilizing the impact of Earth and atmospheric tides on groundwater systems: A review reveals the future potential

TC McMillan, GC Rau, WA Timms… - Reviews of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Groundwater extraction is increasing rapidly in many areas of the world, causing serious
impacts such as falling water tables, ground surface subsidence, water quality degradation …

Error in hydraulic head and gradient time-series measurements: a quantitative appraisal

GC Rau, VEA Post, M Shanafield… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2019 - hess.copernicus.org
Hydraulic head and gradient measurements underpin practically all investigations in
hydrogeology. There is sufficient information in the literature to suggest that head …

Future-proofing hydrogeology by revising groundwater monitoring practice

GC Rau, MO Cuthbert, VEA Post… - Hydrogeology …, 2020 - e-docs.geo-leo.de
Groundwater is an important global resource and its sustainable use faces major
challenges. New methods and advances in computational science could lead to much …

Comparing methods of barometric efficiency characterization for specific storage estimation

C Turnadge, RS Crosbie, O Barron, GC Rau - Groundwater, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Groundwater responses to barometric pressure fluctuations are characterized using the
concept of barometric efficiency (BE). For semiconfined and confined aquifers, BE values …

On the importance of considering specific storage heterogeneity in hydraulic tomography: Laboratory sandbox and synthetic studies

Z Zhao, WA Illman - Journal of Hydrology, 2021 - Elsevier
Over the last two decades, various studies on Transient Hydraulic Tomography (THT) have
shown that it is an effective approach to characterize subsurface heterogeneity. Typically …

Multifactor analysis of specific storage estimates and implications for transient groundwater modelling

F Chowdhury, J Gong, GC Rau, WA Timms - Hydrogeology Journal, 2022 - Springer
Specific storage (SS) has considerable predictive importance in the modelling of
groundwater systems, yet little is known about its statistical distribution and dependency on …

Quantifying compressible groundwater storage by combining cross‐hole seismic surveys and head response to atmospheric tides

GC Rau, RI Acworth, LJS Halloran… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Groundwater specific storage varies by orders of magnitude, is difficult to quantify, and prone
to significant uncertainty. Estimating specific storage using aquifer testing is hampered by …

An empirical specific storage-depth model for the Earth's crust

X Kuang, C Zheng, JJ Jiao, JA Cherry, J Chen - Journal of Hydrology, 2021 - Elsevier
Specific storage, a basic hydraulic property of an aquifer, is required for transient
groundwater studies. Previous investigations have shown that specific storage decreases …

[PDF][PDF] Using water-level fluctuations in response to Earth-tide and barometric-pressure changes to measure the in-situ hydrogeological properties of an overburden …

S Qu, Z Shi, G Wang, Q Xu, Z Zhu, J Han - Hydrogeology Journal, 2020 - researchgate.net
For the quantitative evaluation of the impact of mining on a groundwater system, it is
necessary to constrain the hydrogeological and mechanical properties. However, the in situ …