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Roles of capillary fringe to solute transport in subsurface water

Research Project

Project/Area Number 60580197
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Research Field 自然地理学
Research InstitutionUniversity of Tsukuba

Principal Investigator

TASE Norio  University of Tsukuba, Assistant professor, 地球科学系, 講師 (40133011)

新藤 静夫 (1986)  筑波大学, 地球科学系, 教授

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) SHINDO Shizuo  Chiba University, Professor, 理学部, 教授 (70058014)
Project Period (FY) 1985 – 1986
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 1986)
Budget Amount *help
¥1,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000)
Fiscal Year 1986: ¥400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000)
Fiscal Year 1985: ¥1,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000)
KeywordsSubsurface water / Soil water / Groundwater / Capillary fringe / Fluctuation of water table / Unaturated-saturated zones / Solute transport / 塩素イオン
Research Abstract

The capillary fringe between soil-water and groundwater zones might play an important roles in solute transport, especially under fluctuations of grounwater level.
This research dealt with this subject through laboratory experiments and field observations in Dejima area of Ibaraki Prefecture, where groudwater levels change largely due to irrigation.
In the laboratory experiments, relationships among water and solute transports, water content, and solute concentrations in small columns were analyzed.
In the field observations, groundwater level, soil moisture, hydraulic head, rainfall, and water quality were measured. Fluctuations of groundwater were also induced artificially by pump-up and water and solute behaviors were observed.
Some of observed results are as follows:
Behaviors of water and solute vary after the manner of water table fluctuation. That is quick falldown seems to induce different behaviors from those of slow falldown of water table. Falldown and rising of water table could cause different behaviors of water and solute.
Hysteresis of solution behaviors as wells as water is recognized, which seems to come from the hysteresis of pF-water content relationship.
With positions and range of groundwater level, discontinuity (or non-homogeneity) of geology, especially silt or clay in layered soils affects behaviors of water and solute, and depth profiles of solute concentration.
Simulation study will be done after field observations of two more years.

Report

(1 results)
  • 1986 Final Research Report Summary
  • Research Products

    (6 results)

All Other

All Publications (6 results)

  • [Publications] 新藤静夫: 応用地質. 27. 210-221 (1986)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1986 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Norio TASE;Kazumasa FUJII;Ferdinand MAYILA: Ann.Rep.,Inst.Geosci.,Univ.Tsukuba. no.12. 31-34 (1986)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1986 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 田瀬則雄,藤井一正: 筑波大学水理実験センター報告. 11号. (1987)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1986 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 新藤静夫,唐常源: ハイドロロジー. 16. (1987)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1986 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Norio TASE, Kazumasa FUJII, and Ferdinand MAYILA: "Behaviors of water and chloride in the unsaturated-saturated zones" Annual Report, Inst. Geosci., Univ. Tsukuba. no. 12. 31-34 (1986)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1986 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Shizuo SHINDO: "The effect of geological and topographical factors on the behavior of pollutants in groundwater flow systems" Applied Geology. 27. 210-221 (1986)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1986 Final Research Report Summary

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Published: 1987-03-31   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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