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  • Numerical solutions to the nonlinear Boussinesq equation, applied to a steeply sloping aquifer and assuming uniform hydraulic conductivity, indicate that late-time recession discharge decreases nearly linearly in time. When recession discharge is characterized by -dQ/dt=aQ[superscript b], this is equivalent to constant dQ/dt or b=0. This result suggests that a previously reported exponential decrease with time (b=1) of modeled recession discharge from a similar sloping aquifer represented by the same equation appears to be an artifact of the numerical solution scheme and its interpretation. Because the linearly decreasing recession discharge (b=0) is not known from field studies, these findings challenge the application of a nonlinear Boussinesq framework assuming uniform conductivity and geometric similarity to infer hydraulic properties of sloping aquifers from observations of streamflow. This finding also questions the validity of the physical interpretation of the exponential decline in late time resulting from the commonly used linearized form of the Boussinesq equation, opposed to the full nonlinear equation, when applied under these conditions. For this reason, application of the linearized equation to infer hydraulic properties of sloping aquifers is also challenged, even if the observed recession is consistent with that of the linearized Boussinesq equation.
  • This is the publisher’s final pdf. The article is copyrighted by the American Geophysical Union and can be found at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1944-7973.
  • Keywords: Boussinesq, Numerical model, Groundwater, Hillslope
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  • Bogaart, P. W., D. E. Rupp, J. S. Selker, and Y. van der Velde (2013), Late-time drainage from a sloping Boussinesq aquifer, Water Resources Research, 49, 7498–7507. doi:10.1002/2013WR013780
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  • 49
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  • This research was partly funded by NWO(Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research) project 857.00.008, andthe Oregon Experiment station.
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