1887
Volume 4 Number 4
  • ISSN: 1569-4445
  • E-ISSN: 1873-0604

Abstract

ABSTRACT

We obtain the transverse electric (TE) and transverse magnetic (TM) Fresnel reflection coefficients for different interfaces in the subsoil: air/fresh‐water, air/seawater, fresh‐water/seawater, air/NAPL (non‐aqueous phase liquid), NAPL/water and water/NAPL. We consider a range of NAPL saturations, where the complementary fluid is water with 0.65 ppt (parts per thousand) of NaCl. The common feature is that the TM mode (parallel polarization) has a negative anomaly and the TE mode (perpendicular polarization) has a positive anomaly. For the cases studied in this work, pseudo‐Brewster angles appear beyond 40° for the air/NAPL and NAPL/water interfaces and at near offsets (below 40°) for the water/NAPL interface. Pseudo‐critical angles are present for the water/NAPL interface. Besides the reflection strength, the phase angle can be used to discriminate between low‐ and high‐conductivity NAPL, when the properties of the upper medium are known. A wavenumber–frequency domain method is used to compute the reflection coefficient and phase angle from synthetic radargrams. This method and the curves can be used to interpret the amplitude variations with angle (AVA) of reflection events in radargrams obtained with ground‐penetrating radar (GPR).

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