Groundwater Temperature Modelling at the Water Table with a Simple Heat Conduction Model
This study aimed at the analysis and modelling of the groundwater temperature at the water table in different regions of Slovakia. In the first part, the analysis of the long-term trends of air and soil/ground temperature to a depth of 10 m is presented. The average annual soil/groundwater temperatu...
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author | Pavla Pekárová Andrej Tall Ján Pekár Justína Vitková Pavol Miklánek |
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description | This study aimed at the analysis and modelling of the groundwater temperature at the water table in different regions of Slovakia. In the first part, the analysis of the long-term trends of air and soil/ground temperature to a depth of 10 m is presented. The average annual soil/groundwater temperatures at different depths were the same but lower than the annual average air temperature by about 0.8 °C. The long-term trend analysis of the air temperature and soil temperature at a depth of up to 10 m in Slovakia showed that the air and soil/ground water temperature have risen by 0.6 and 0.5 °C, respectively, per decade over the past 30 years. The second part of the study aimed at modelling the daily groundwater temperatures at depths of 0.6–15 m below the surface. The simple groundwater temperature model was constructed based on a one-dimensional differential Fourier heat conduction equation. The given model can be used to estimate future groundwater temperature trends using regional air temperature projections calculated for different greenhouse gas emission scenarios. |
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spelling | doaj.art-5e0f5818e024401ab4766cd5f2b9f5342023-11-24T00:25:22ZengMDPI AGHydrology2306-53382022-10-0191018510.3390/hydrology9100185Groundwater Temperature Modelling at the Water Table with a Simple Heat Conduction ModelPavla Pekárová0Andrej Tall1Ján Pekár2Justína Vitková3Pavol Miklánek4Institute of Hydrology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, 841 04 Bratislava, SlovakiaInstitute of Hydrology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, 841 04 Bratislava, SlovakiaDepartment of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics, and Informatics, Comenius University in Bratislava, Mlynská Dolina, 842 48 Bratislava, SlovakiaInstitute of Hydrology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, 841 04 Bratislava, SlovakiaInstitute of Hydrology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, 841 04 Bratislava, SlovakiaThis study aimed at the analysis and modelling of the groundwater temperature at the water table in different regions of Slovakia. In the first part, the analysis of the long-term trends of air and soil/ground temperature to a depth of 10 m is presented. The average annual soil/groundwater temperatures at different depths were the same but lower than the annual average air temperature by about 0.8 °C. The long-term trend analysis of the air temperature and soil temperature at a depth of up to 10 m in Slovakia showed that the air and soil/ground water temperature have risen by 0.6 and 0.5 °C, respectively, per decade over the past 30 years. The second part of the study aimed at modelling the daily groundwater temperatures at depths of 0.6–15 m below the surface. The simple groundwater temperature model was constructed based on a one-dimensional differential Fourier heat conduction equation. The given model can be used to estimate future groundwater temperature trends using regional air temperature projections calculated for different greenhouse gas emission scenarios.https://www.mdpi.com/2306-5338/9/10/185ground water temperaturesoil temperaturemonitoringmodelling |
spellingShingle | Pavla Pekárová Andrej Tall Ján Pekár Justína Vitková Pavol Miklánek Groundwater Temperature Modelling at the Water Table with a Simple Heat Conduction Model Hydrology ground water temperature soil temperature monitoring modelling |
title | Groundwater Temperature Modelling at the Water Table with a Simple Heat Conduction Model |
title_full | Groundwater Temperature Modelling at the Water Table with a Simple Heat Conduction Model |
title_fullStr | Groundwater Temperature Modelling at the Water Table with a Simple Heat Conduction Model |
title_full_unstemmed | Groundwater Temperature Modelling at the Water Table with a Simple Heat Conduction Model |
title_short | Groundwater Temperature Modelling at the Water Table with a Simple Heat Conduction Model |
title_sort | groundwater temperature modelling at the water table with a simple heat conduction model |
topic | ground water temperature soil temperature monitoring modelling |
url | https://www.mdpi.com/2306-5338/9/10/185 |
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