RE: SOlution Fractions

["Ranjan S. Muttiah" <muttiah@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Opps.  I sent you the wrong file.  Pl. use this.
There's 3x times the Cl- in B.

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-----Original Message-----
From: David L Parkhurst [mailto:dlpark@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 11:09 AM
To: muttiah@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-Reply-To: <NFBBJFDDBBBCHIDBODCJEEJCCMAA.muttiah@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: SOlution Fractions




> The measurements are on A (Sumner,NM) and downstream of A
at B (Acme, NM) on the Pecos.
I put in all the anion/cation measurements at A and
B and get -200.2 for H2O mole transfer (see attached
for input file).

Attached input file has similar analyses for solutions 1 and 2. If there
has been significant evaporation, I would expect to see higher chloride
downstream (~5 times greater). Looks more like loss of water by seepage to
the ground-water system than evaporation.

> Looking at the stream flow record,
there's 80 cfs at A and 15 cfs at B on the days
of measurement.  I'm assuming
that the difference has been lost to evaporation
and channel loss.  The mixing ratio gives soln1:2
of 4.6:1 from the model.

When I run it, I get 1.0 mixing fraction?

> Should I take this to
mean that the model estimates that 3.6 kg (= 200.2/55.5)
of water was lost at B for every kg of water @ A
due to evaporation ? (the recorded stream
flow loss gives 80/15 = 5.7). How should I
interpret the 4.6 ratio ?

It means that 4.6 L of water at A is evaporated to leave 1 L of water at B.
The difference is approximately 3.6 L of water ~ 3.6 kg water ~ 200 moles
of water that has evaporated, which is the mole transfer of H2O(g). I don't
see this when I run your model, but if there is no significant channel
seepage the model would be describing the evaporation process. In this
case, the 4.6:1 should be similar to the flow ratios 5.7:1.

David


David Parkhurst (dlpark@xxxxxxxx)
U.S. Geological Survey
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