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The Impact of Glaciation and Permafrost on Groundwater Flow

2016· dissertation· en· W2307525449 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Melissa Barnard

Bibliographic record

VenueUWSpace (University of Waterloo) · 2016
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldEarth and Planetary Sciences
TopicClimate change and permafrost
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPermafrostGlacial periodGeologyGroundwater flowGroundwaterHydrology (agriculture)GeomorphologyGeotechnical engineeringAquiferOceanography
DOInot available

Abstract

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Current geologic and climatic conditions need to be considered when choosing an appropriate site for a Deep Geologic Repository (DGR). However, given the million-year timeframe for the radioactivity of the used fuel to reduce to that of its natural uranium content and the record of repeated glacial cycles in the Northern hemisphere over the past million years, the impact of glaciation on the DGR also needs to be considered. Simplifying assumptions are often made in such paleo-climate modelling analyses involving permafrost and glaciation and include the assumptions that fluid flow is isothermal and fully-saturated and the phreatic surface in the permafrost is within metres of the topographic surface. Those assumptions were examined using a modelling approach that included thermal transport and flow conditions with an alternate conceptualization of the water table boundary conditions to develop a more detailed representation of the impact and glacial and periglacial conditions on the groundwater flow system. Two computational models, FRAC3DVS-OPG and COMSOL Multiphysics, were used to carry out those investigations. The numerical models of the Greenland Analogue Project (GAP) study site that investigated groundwater flow and permafrost near the edge of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GIS) and a proposed DGR site in Southern Ontario were used to examine the impact of permafrost on the water table for fully-saturated and variably-saturated flow conditions. Those analyses demonstrated that with the presence of permafrost, the use of a prescribed head boundary condition did not allow drainage that may occur when the recharge to permafrost is set to zero. Permafrost will not allow enough recharge to maintain fully-saturated conditions, and the system will drain beneath it.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.029
Threshold uncertainty score0.057

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.014
GPT teacher head0.212
Teacher spread0.198 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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