The population concentration in coastal areas and the increase of groundwater discharge in combination with the peculiarities of karstic coastal aquifers constitute a huge worldwide problem, which is particularly relevant for coastal aquifers of the Mediterranean basin. This paper offers a review of scientific activities realized to pursue the optimal utilization of Apulian coastal groundwater....

20 21 Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) have been successfully employed for predicting and 22 forecasting groundwater levels up to some time steps ahead. In this paper, we present an 23 application of feed forward neural networks (FFNs) for long period simulations of hourly 24 groundwater levels in a coastal unconfined aquifer sited in the Lagoon of Venice, Italy. After 25 initializing the mode...

A sharp interface numerical model is developed to simulate saltwater intrusion in multilayered coastal aquifer systems. The model takes into account the flow dynamics of salt water and fresh water assuming a sharp interface between the two liquids. In contrast to previous two-fluid flow models which were formulated using the hydraulic heads of fresh water and salt water as the dependent variabl...

Coastal aquifers are increasingly threatened by seawater intrusion due to increased urbanization, groundwater exploitation, and global sea-level rise. Pattern diagrams, which constitute the outcome of several hydro-geochemical processes, have traditionally been used to characterize vulnerability to seawater intrusion. However, the formats of such diagrams do not facilitate the geospatial analys...

In this study, abstraction, desalination and recharge method and SEAWAT numerical model are used to investigate seawater intrusion repulsion in a hypothetical two-dimensional coastal aquifer to understand the relation of seawater intrusion with abstraction, desalination and recharge parameters (i.e. abstraction/recharge rate, wells distance and depth). Abstraction, desalination and recharge con...

[1] The mixing zone between freshwater and seawater in a coastal aquifer is an important transition region that controls regional groundwater flow dynamics and reactive transport processes. While experimental procedures have been developed to study the movement of salt wedges in aquifers, so far no one has attempted to exclusivelymap themixing zone associated with the wedge in a laboratory-scal...

Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) have been successfully employed for predicting and forecasting groundwater levels up to some time steps ahead. In this paper, we present an application of feed forward neural networks (FFNs) for long period simulations of hourly groundwater levels in a coastal unconfined aquifer sited in the Lagoon of Venice, Italy. After initialising the model with groundwater...