A review of GIS-integrated statistical techniques for groundwater quality evaluation and protection

D Machiwal, V Cloutier, C Güler, N Kazakis - Environmental Earth …, 2018 - Springer
Water quality evaluation is critically important for the protection and sustainable
management of groundwater resources, which are variably vulnerable to ever-increasing …

Inverse modeling of contaminant transport for pollution source identification in surface and groundwaters: a review

MB Moghaddam, M Mazaheri, JMV Samani - Groundwater for Sustainable …, 2021 - Elsevier
Fast and accurate identification of unknown pollution sources is a crucial and challenging
task in water resources management, in which the characteristics of unknown pollution …

State of the art report on mathematical methods for groundwater pollution source identification

J Atmadja, AC Bagtzoglou - Environmental forensics, 2001 - Elsevier
The reliable assessment of hazards or risks arising from groundwater contamination
problems and the design of efficient and effective techniques to mitigate these problems …

Estimation of historical groundwater contaminant distribution using the adjoint state method applied to geostatistical inverse modeling

AM Michalak, PK Kitanidis - Water resources research, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
As the incidence of groundwater contamination continues to grow, a number of inverse
modeling methods have been developed to address forensic groundwater problems. In this …

Contaminant source identification in aquifers: A critical view

JJ Gómez-Hernández, T Xu - Mathematical Geosciences, 2022 - Springer
Forty years and 157 papers later, research on contaminant source identification has grown
exponentially in number but seems to be stalled concerning advancement towards the …

A geostatistical approach to surface flux estimation of atmospheric trace gases

AM Michalak, L Bruhwiler… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Inverse modeling methods have been used to estimate surface fluxes of atmospheric trace
gases such as CFCs, CH4, and CO2 on the basis of atmospheric mass fraction …

Large‐scale hydraulic tomography and joint inversion of head and tracer data using the principal component geostatistical approach (PCGA)

J Lee, PK Kitanidis - Water Resources Research, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The stochastic geostatistical inversion approach is widely used in subsurface inverse
problems to estimate unknown parameter fields and corresponding uncertainty from noisy …

Analyzing bank filtration by deconvoluting time series of electric conductivity

OA Cirpka, MN Fienen, M Hofer, E Hoehn… - …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Knowing the travel‐time distributions from infiltrating rivers to pumping wells is important in
the management of alluvial aquifers. Commonly, travel‐time distributions are determined by …

Application of a genetic algorithm to groundwater pollution source identification

K Han, R Zuo, P Ni, Z Xue, D Xu, J Wang, D Zhang - Journal of Hydrology, 2020 - Elsevier
The accurate identification of groundwater pollution sources is the key to site remediation
and management, which directly relates to the cost and effect of remediation during later …

Recent developments in fast and scalable inverse modeling and data assimilation methods in hydrology

H Ghorbanidehno, A Kokkinaki, J Lee, E Darve - Journal of Hydrology, 2020 - Elsevier
The last twenty years have brought significant advances in hydrology and hydrogeology,
especially in the area of data availability and predictive modeling capabilities. Remote …