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Title: Transient Inverse Calibration of Hanford Site-Wide Groundwater Model to Hanford Operational Impacts - 1943 to 1996

Abstract

This report describes a new initiative to strengthen the technical defensibility of predictions made with the Hanford site-wide groundwater flow and transport model. The focus is on characterizing major uncertainties in the current model. PNNL will develop and implement a calibration approach and methodology that can be used to evaluate alternative conceptual models of the Hanford aquifer system. The calibration process will involve a three-dimensional transient inverse calibration of each numerical model to historical observations of hydraulic and water quality impacts to the unconfined aquifer system from Hanford operations since the mid-1940s.

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
US Department of Energy (US)
OSTI Identifier:
786781
Report Number(s):
PNNL-13447; EW02J1080
EW02J1080; TRN: AH200133%%194
DOE Contract Number:  
AC06-76RL01830
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: 31 May 2001
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; AQUIFERS; CALIBRATION; HYDRAULICS; TRANSIENTS; TRANSPORT; WATER QUALITY

Citation Formats

Cole, Charles R, Bergeron, Marcel P, Wurstner, Signe K, Thorne, Paul D, Orr, Samuel, and Mckinley, Mathew I. Transient Inverse Calibration of Hanford Site-Wide Groundwater Model to Hanford Operational Impacts - 1943 to 1996. United States: N. p., 2001. Web. doi:10.2172/786781.
Cole, Charles R, Bergeron, Marcel P, Wurstner, Signe K, Thorne, Paul D, Orr, Samuel, & Mckinley, Mathew I. Transient Inverse Calibration of Hanford Site-Wide Groundwater Model to Hanford Operational Impacts - 1943 to 1996. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/786781
Cole, Charles R, Bergeron, Marcel P, Wurstner, Signe K, Thorne, Paul D, Orr, Samuel, and Mckinley, Mathew I. 2001. "Transient Inverse Calibration of Hanford Site-Wide Groundwater Model to Hanford Operational Impacts - 1943 to 1996". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/786781. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/786781.
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title = {Transient Inverse Calibration of Hanford Site-Wide Groundwater Model to Hanford Operational Impacts - 1943 to 1996},
author = {Cole, Charles R and Bergeron, Marcel P and Wurstner, Signe K and Thorne, Paul D and Orr, Samuel and Mckinley, Mathew I},
abstractNote = {This report describes a new initiative to strengthen the technical defensibility of predictions made with the Hanford site-wide groundwater flow and transport model. The focus is on characterizing major uncertainties in the current model. PNNL will develop and implement a calibration approach and methodology that can be used to evaluate alternative conceptual models of the Hanford aquifer system. The calibration process will involve a three-dimensional transient inverse calibration of each numerical model to historical observations of hydraulic and water quality impacts to the unconfined aquifer system from Hanford operations since the mid-1940s.},
doi = {10.2172/786781},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/786781}, journal = {},
number = ,
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place = {United States},
year = {Thu May 31 00:00:00 EDT 2001},
month = {Thu May 31 00:00:00 EDT 2001}
}