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Seismic velocity is one of the most important parameters used in seismic exploration. Accurate velocity models are key prerequisites for reverse-time migration and other high-resolution seismic imaging techniques. Such velocity information…

Geophysics · Physics 2019-02-19 Fangshu Yang , Jianwei Ma

Accurate seismic imaging and velocity estimation are essential for subsurface characterization. Conventional inversion techniques, such as full-waveform inversion, remain computationally expensive and sensitive to initial velocity models.…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-04-23 Yunlin Zeng , Huseyin Tuna Erdinc , Rafael Orozco , Felix Herrmann

Understanding the migration and trapping of CO$_2$ in the subsurface is vital to geologic carbon storage projects. Traditional characterization methods employ steady-state co-injection experiments to determine relative permeability and…

This work focuses on the simulation of $CO_2$ storage in deep underground formations under uncertainty and seeks to understand the impact of uncertainties in reservoir properties on $CO_2$ leakage. To simulate the process, a non-isothermal…

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Marine heat flow data, obtained with a Lister-type probe, consists of two temperature decay curves, frictional and heat pulse decay. Both follow the same physical model of a cooling cylinder. The mathematical model describing the decays is…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-01-19 Andreas Hartmann , Heinrich Villinger

Current methods of estimating the change in stress caused by injecting fluid into subsurface formations require choosing the type of constitutive model and the model parameters based on core, log, and geophysical data during the…

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As the global deployment of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technology intensifies in the fight against climate change, it becomes increasingly imperative to establish robust monitoring and detection mechanisms for potential…

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We propose a new reservoir computing method for forecasting high-resolution spatiotemporal datasets. By combining multi-resolution inputs from coarser to finer layers, our architecture better captures both local and global dynamics. Applied…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Nicola Alboré , Gabriele Di Antonio , Fabrizio Coccetti , Andrea Gabrielli

Geological carbon storage entails the injection of megatonnes of supercritical CO2 into subsurface formations. The properties of these formations are usually highly uncertain, which makes design and optimization of large-scale storage…

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We perform a series of repeated CO2 injections in a room-scale physical model of a faulted geological cross-section. Relevant parameters for subsurface carbon sequestration, including multiphase flows, capillary CO2 trapping, dissolution,…

To enable flexible model coupling in coastal inundation studies, a coupling framework based on ESMF/NUOPC technology under a common modeling framework called the NOAA Environmental Modeling System (NEMS) was developed. The framework is…

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This paper proposes strategies to detect time reversibility in stationary stochastic processes by using the properties of mixed causal and noncausal models. It shows that they can also be used for non-stationary processes when the trend…

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Inversion methodology has been used to obtain, from multi-layer soil probes records, a complete soil parametrisation, namely water retention curve, unsaturated conductivity curve and bulk density at 4 depths. The approach integrates water…

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In carbon capture and sequestration, building an effective monitoring method is a crucial step to detect and respond to CO2 leakage. CO2 leakage detection methods rely on geophysical observations and monitoring sensor network. However,…

Geophysics · Physics 2019-01-29 Zheng Zhou , Youzuo Lin , Yue Wu , Zan Wang , Robert Dilmore , George Guthrie

We describe a new method, full waveform inversion by model extension (FWIME) that recovers accurate acoustic subsurface velocity models from seismic data, when conventional methods fail. We leverage the advantageous convergence properties…

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