Abstract
AbstractMonitoring groundwater storage is essential for sustainable groundwater management. Storage can be quantified by considering the two main components through which storage change is expressed: saturation changes and deformation of aquifer materials. Here, these components were quantified using a selected area in California’s San Joaquin Valley (USA). First, this involved following existing observational approaches: quantifying the component expressed through saturation changes by identifying head measurements from shallow wells and scaling by specific yield. In the San Joaquin Valley, existing approaches to estimate the deformation component are to ignore it or approximate it with a simple linear relation to measured head. However, head and deformation measurements made at extensometers revealed that assuming a linear relationship between deformation and head might provide a poor estimate, particularly during periods in which measured head is rising. Instead, InSAR-derived surface deformation measurements were used to quantify the deformation component of storage changes. This showed that the two components—saturation and deformation—accounted for storage declines of equal magnitude over 2015–2021, suggesting that the deformation component should not be neglected when estimating storage changes in regions with subsidence. Summing the two calculated components gave a new estimate of the total storage change that captured the major trends seen in independent estimates, while better accounting for the deformation component. An additional benefit is that this method accounts for the deformation component in the unconfined aquifer. This method to quantify total storage change can be a practical and effective tool to support groundwater management.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous),Water Science and Technology
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