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Pulsed Electromagnetic Cross-well Exploration for Monitoring Permafrost and Examining the Processes of Its Geocryological Changes

Version 1 : Received: 9 December 2020 / Approved: 10 December 2020 / Online: 10 December 2020 (10:39:26 CET)

How to cite: Glinskikh, V.; Nechaev, O.; Mikhaylov, I.; Danilovskiy, K.; Olenchenko, V. Pulsed Electromagnetic Cross-well Exploration for Monitoring Permafrost and Examining the Processes of Its Geocryological Changes. Preprints 2020, 2020120248. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202012.0248.v1 Glinskikh, V.; Nechaev, O.; Mikhaylov, I.; Danilovskiy, K.; Olenchenko, V. Pulsed Electromagnetic Cross-well Exploration for Monitoring Permafrost and Examining the Processes of Its Geocryological Changes. Preprints 2020, 2020120248. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202012.0248.v1

Abstract

The paper is dedicated to the topical problem of examining permafrost state and the processes of its geocryological changes by means of geophysical methods. To monitor the cryolithozone, we propose and scientifically substantiate a new technique of pulsed electromagnetic cross-well sounding. Based on the vector finite-element method, we created a mathematical model of the cross-well sounding process with a pulsed source in a three-dimensional spatially heterogeneous medium. A high-performance parallel computing algorithm was developed and verified. Through realistic geoelectric models of permafrost with a talik under a highway, constructed following the results of electrotomography field data interpretation, we numerically simulated the pulsed sounding on the computing resources of the Siberian Supercomputer Center of SB RAS. The simulation results suggest the proposed system of pulsed electromagnetic cross-well monitoring to be characterized by a high sensitivity to the presence and dimensions of the talik. The devised approach can be oriented to addressing a wide range of issues related to monitoring permafrost rocks under civil and industrial facilities, buildings and constructions.

Keywords

cryolithozone; geophysical monitoring; pulsed electromagnetic sounding; cross-well exploration; vector finite-element method; numerical simulation; high-performance computing

Subject

Environmental and Earth Sciences, Geophysics and Geology

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