“…Three main terminologies, including scale‐dependent , non‐Fickian and pre‐asymptotic , have been proposed to describe properties of pollutant transport in heterogeneous media deviating from Fickian transport in ideal, homogeneous media (note that the concept of ‘anomalous transport’ was also widely used by hydrologists, but we did not use it here since it has no strict definition in physics and it overlaps with the three terminologies mentioned above). For example, conservative solute moving in heterogeneous porous media was found to be scale‐dependent , characterized by the apparent dispersion coefficient D or dispersivity α increasing with the travel distance or time (Dagan, 1989; Gelhar, Welty, & Rehfeldt, 1992; Gelhar, 1993; Sousa, de Oliveira, Machado, & Carvalho, 2020; Wang et al, 2018; Yadav & Kumar, 2019; among many others). This property is likely driven by the spatial variability of hydraulic conductivity ( K ), motivating various approximations of macrodispersion (e.g., the asymptotic longitudinal dispersivity) using the statistics of ln K (Dagan, 1982, 1988; Gelhar, 1993; Gelhar & Axness, 1983; Hess, Wolf, & Celia, 1992; Neuman, Winter, & Newman, 1987).…”