1Geohazards InSAR laboratory and Modeling group (InSARlab), Geoscience research department, Geological Survey of Spain (IGME), Alenza 1, 28003 Madrid, Spain
2Unidad Asociada de investigación IGME-UA de movimientos del terreno mediante interferometría radar (UNIRAD), Universidad de Alicante, P.O. Box 99, 03080 Alicante, Spain
3Grupo Español de Trabajo en Subsidencia del Terreno (SUBTER) from the UNESCO, P.O. Box 99, 03080 Alicante, Spain
4Earth Observation and Geohazards Expert Group (EOEG), EuroGeoSurveys, The Geological Surveys of Europe, 36-38, Rue Joseph II, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
5Technical University of Madrid. Laboratorio de Topografía y Geomática, ETSI Caminos, Canales y Puertos C/Profesor Aranguren s/n, 28040 Madrid, Spain
6Departamento de Ingeniería Civil, Escuela Politécnica Superior, Universidad de Alicante, P.O. Box 99, 03080 Alicante, Spain
7Geoscience research department, Geological Survey of Spain (IGME), Alenza 1, 28003 Madrid, Spain
1Geohazards InSAR laboratory and Modeling group (InSARlab), Geoscience research department, Geological Survey of Spain (IGME), Alenza 1, 28003 Madrid, Spain
2Unidad Asociada de investigación IGME-UA de movimientos del terreno mediante interferometría radar (UNIRAD), Universidad de Alicante, P.O. Box 99, 03080 Alicante, Spain
3Grupo Español de Trabajo en Subsidencia del Terreno (SUBTER) from the UNESCO, P.O. Box 99, 03080 Alicante, Spain
4Earth Observation and Geohazards Expert Group (EOEG), EuroGeoSurveys, The Geological Surveys of Europe, 36-38, Rue Joseph II, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
5Technical University of Madrid. Laboratorio de Topografía y Geomática, ETSI Caminos, Canales y Puertos C/Profesor Aranguren s/n, 28040 Madrid, Spain
6Departamento de Ingeniería Civil, Escuela Politécnica Superior, Universidad de Alicante, P.O. Box 99, 03080 Alicante, Spain
7Geoscience research department, Geological Survey of Spain (IGME), Alenza 1, 28003 Madrid, Spain
Correspondence: M. Béjar-Pizarro (m.bejar@igme.es)
Abstract. The Tertiary detritic aquifer of Madrid (TDAM), with an average thickness of 1500 m and a heterogeneous, anisotropic structure, supplies water to Madrid, the most populated city of Spain (3.2 million inhabitants in the metropolitan area). Besides its complex structure, a previous work focused in the north-northwest of Madrid city showed that the aquifer behaves quasi elastically trough extraction/recovery cycles and ground uplifting during recovery periods compensates most of the ground subsidence measured during previous extraction periods (Ezquerro et al., 2014). Therefore, the relationship between ground deformation and groundwater level through time can be simulated using simple elastic models. In this work, we model the temporal evolution of the piezometric level in 19 wells of the TDAM in the period 1997–2010. Using InSAR and piezometric time series spanning the studied period, we first estimate the elastic storage coefficient (Ske) for every well. Both, the Ske of each well and the average Ske of all wells, are used to predict hydraulic heads at the different well locations during the study period and compared against the measured hydraulic heads, leading to very similar errors when using the Ske of each well and the average Ske of all wells: 14 and 16 % on average respectively. This result suggests that an average Ske can be used to estimate piezometric level variations in all the points where ground deformation has been measured by InSAR, thus allowing production of piezometric level maps for the different extraction/recovery cycles in the TDAM.
We use InSAR time series to infer the temporal evolution of the piezometric level in 19 wells of the Tertiary detritic aquifer of Madrid (TDAM) in the period 1997-2010. Our results suggest that an average elastic storage coefficient Ske of all wells can be used to estimate piezometric level variations in all the points where ground deformation has been measured by InSAR, thus allowing production of piezometric level maps for the different extraction/recovery cycles in the TDAM.
We use InSAR time series to infer the temporal evolution of the piezometric level in 19 wells of...