The Improvement of the Regional Flow Model of the Tokaj Mountains with the Help of Geophysical Inversion Methods

The WELL aHEAD Project has realized the first regional-scale complex hydrogeological study of the Tokaj Mountains. The complex geology of this region was well known, but a general hydrogeological description did not exist. Based on the derived information, a regional scale flow model has been built to understand the regional flow systems of the Tokaj Mountains. This is the first time that the water budget can also be estimated to provide valuable information for groundwater management measures. Different geophysical methods gave the opportunity to refine the modeling activity in order to receive better calibration results during the trial and error inversion procedure. As a result, it can be concluded that valuable drinking and thermal water resources are available in the Tokaj Mountains, and can be the basis of future developments.