TracerLPM
January 15, 2020
TracerLPM is an interactive Excel® (2007 or later) workbook program used to evaluate groundwater age distributions from environmental tracer data by using lumped parameter models (LPMs). User-defined age distributions, such as those determined from particle tracking, and those generated from LPMs can be used to calculate past and future concentrations of non-point source contaminants and in evaluating the response of wells or receptors to changes in source loading using TracerLPM.
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Software Download
Version 1.1.0, January 15, 2020
Operates on systems running Windows XP or later.
- TracerLPM_x32: Compiled for 32-bit versions of Excel 2007 and 2010
- TracerLPM_x64: Compiled for 64-bit versions of Excel 2010
Information
Version History
| Version | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1.0 | 7/19/2012 | Initial Release |
| 1.0 | 7/25/2012 | Re-release of initial release with installation icons and error trapping updates to code. |
| 1.0.1 | 8/30/2012 | Minor fix to scaling factor on TracerInput worksheet |
| 1.0.1 | 03/07/2014 | Re-release of version 1.0.1 with updated TracerLPM document (eqn. edits in Appendix A) |
| 1.0.2 | 03/25/2015 | Fix to TracerTracerFits and TimeSeriesFits that prevented tracers with 0 concentration from being included in optimization. Updated air curves for CFCs and SF6 in northern hemisphere based on data from Reston Age Dating Lab. Values after January 2014 were interpolated using a linear trend of data between January 2012 and 2014. |
| 1.1.0 | 01/15/2020 | Adjusted dates on the TracerInput worksheet to work with tracer records up to year 2030. Added tracer input datasets for tritium based on Michel and others, 2018 report. Added tracers for argon-39, krypton-85, and krypton-81. Fixed the southern hemisphere curves for CFC-11 and CFC-12, which were switched. |
Documentation
Other Resources
- 2012 National Groundwater Workshop Training Materials
- TracerLPM IAEA Workshop 2015
- GAMACTT (Version 1.0): Groundwater Age Mixtures and Contaminant Trends Tool
The following download link is for 64-bit versions of Excel 2010. For other versions, please refer to the Software Download section further up the page.
Citation Information
| Publication Year | 2020 |
|---|---|
| Title | TracerLPM |
| Product Type | Software Release |
| Record Source | USGS Asset Identifier Service (AIS) |