From 2001-12-10 to 2001-12-14

Venue: Moscone Center
San Francisco
California, USA

Summary:
The session entitled "Evaluation of Unsaturated Flow Models, Recent Advances and Applications" will be held at the AGU Fall meeting.

Recharge and evapotranspiration are critical components of the water cycle from global to local scales that can be evaluated using unsaturated flow modeling. Through improvements in unsaturated flow monitoring, more data are available for input and verification of these codes. Recent advances in codes include the variety of processes simulated, including liquid and vapor flow, hysteresis, vegetation, and surface runoff. Increased computational power allows larger scale or longer term simulations to be conducted. Examples of applications of these codes include evaluation of land-atmosphere interactions, cover performance for waste containment, and groundwater recharge. Alternative approaches such as analytical solutions to Richards equations are also being implemented in catchment scale models for large scale evaluation of recharge. We seek both theoretical and applied research results that address the advances and applications of unsaturated flow modeling.

Organizers: American Geophysical Union
Contact Name: AGU Meetings Department
E-mail: meetinginfo@agu.org
URL: http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm01top.html