Multi-scale Analysis of Groundwater Flow and Salt Transport in an Alluvial Floodplain
Confirmation seminar presented by Yuyang Zhu.
Salinity rises due to lack of natural flooding and excess river water usage is threating the health of alluvial floodplains. To minimise salinity impacts, it is important to quantify floodplain groundwater and salt migration processes, in particular, groundwater recharge to the saline aquifer and salt discharge to the freshwater river during natural and artificial floodings. This research aims to improve the understanding of the interactions between floodplain surface water and groundwater with salt dynamics in various spatial and temporal scales and provide a new tool to predict salt distribution with a semi-arid alluvial floodplain.
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