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Edited by A. Dassargues |
IAHS Publication no. 262 (published May 2000) in the IAHS Series of Proceedings and Reports ; ISBN 1-901502-21-X; 572 + xii pp.; price £74
The application of tracer experiments and numerical models to solve hydrogeological questions and problems has increased tremendously in the last fifteen years. This publication provides an up-to-the-minute, international overview of how tracer techniques contribute to the understanding, quantification and modelling of flow and transport processes in complex hydrogeological systems, and how they are being used in practical approaches to assessing groundwater quality, protection methods, solutions to contamination problems, and waste disposal impact studies, at different temporal and spatial scales. There is an emphasis on the reliability of predictive simulations obtained by groundwater modelling which depends largely on the calibration and validation of these models on the basis of measured data.
The 81 papers arise from TraM’2000, an International Conference on Tracers and Modelling in Hydrogeology held at Liège in May 2000, at which specialists from different branches of hydrological science (chemists, hydrogeologists, hydrologists) developing and using tracer techniques, met together with numerical and geostatistical specialists. This volume thus represents the "state-of-the-art" in 2000. It is divided into seven sections; the titles and authors of the papers are listed immediately below, and the abstracts of all the papers are provided thereafter.