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Winter/Spring Runoff Is Earlier, More Protracted, and Increasing in Volume in the Laurentian Great Lakes Basin Water Resour. Res. (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Allison R. Hrycik, Peter D. F. Isles, Donald C. Pierson, Jason D. Stockwell
Winter/spring runoff has changed in streams worldwide due to climate change, particularly in temperate areas where winter/spring streamflow depends on snowmelt. Such changes potentially affect receiving waters through altered nutrient loading and mixing patterns. The Laurentian Great Lakes are an important freshwater resource and have experienced a myriad of impacts due to climate change. We analyzed
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Evaluating Streamflow Forecasts in Hydro-Dominated Power Systems—When and Why They Matter Water Resour. Res. (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Rachel Koh, Stefano Galelli
The value of seasonal streamflow forecasts for the hydropower industry has long been assessed by considering metrics related to hydropower availability. However, this approach overlooks the role played by hydropower dams within the power grid, therefore providing a myopic view of how forecasts could improve the operations of large-scale power systems. With the aim of understanding how the value of
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Downstream Nutrient Concentrations Depend on Watershed Inputs More Than Reservoir Releases in a Highly Engineered Watershed Water Resour. Res. (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 L. R. Montefiore, D. Kaplan, E. J. Phlips, E. C. Milbrandt, M. E. Arias, E. Morrison, N. G. Nelson
In this study, we characterized the impact of regulatory water releases relative to watershed inputs on the quality of receiving waters to identify if and how managed releases could be scheduled to mitigate nutrient export and downstream water quality impairment. We specifically investigated freshwater flow partitioning to the Caloosahatchee River and Estuary (CRE) from a large managed lake, Lake Okeechobee
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A Unified Phenomenological Model Captures Water Equilibrium and Kinetic Processes in Soil Water Resour. Res. (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Yong Zhang, Martinus Th. van Genuchten, Dongbao Zhou, Golden J. Zhang, HongGuang Sun
Soil water sustains life on Earth, and how to quantify water equilibrium and kinetics in soil remains a challenge for over a century despite significant efforts. For example, various models were proposed to interpret non-Darcian flow in saturated soils, but none of them can capture the full range of non-Darcian flow. To unify the different models into one overall framework and improve them if needed
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Spatial-Temporal Differentiation of Supra- and Sub-Permafrost Groundwater Contributions to River Runoff in the Eurasian Arctic and Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Permafrost Regions Water Resour. Res. (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Zhiwei Wang, Shouqin Sun, Genxu Wang, Chunlin Song
Supra- and sub-permafrost groundwater are the two main components of groundwater in permafrost regions. However, due to the lack of groundwater observational data, the spatial-temporal differentiation of these groundwater components in permafrost basins remains unclear. Based on flow data from 17 hydrological stations in five permafrost rivers within the Eurasian Arctic and Qinghai-Tibet Plateau permafrost
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Role of Lakes, Flood, and Low Flow Events in Modifying Catchment-Scale DOC:TN:TP Stoichiometry and Export Water Resour. Res. (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Christina Fasching, Kyle S. Boodoo, Huaxia Yao, James A. Rusak, Marguerite A. Xenopoulos
The balance of organic carbon (OC), nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) plays a crucial role in determining the processing, retention, and movement of these solutes across the aquatic continuum. Floods and droughts can significantly alter the quantity and ratios of OC:N:P export within inland waters, but how these ratios change, and are coupled within watersheds that integrate rivers and lakes, is not
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Large-Scale Channel Response to Erosion-Control Measures Water Resour. Res. (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 C. Ylla Arbós, A. Blom, S. R. White, R. Patzwahl, R. M. J. Schielen
Erosion-control measures in rivers aim to provide sufficient navigation width, reduce local erosion, or to protect neighboring communities from flooding. These measures are typically devised to solve a local problem. However, local channel modifications trigger a large-scale channel response in the form of migrating bed level and sediment sorting waves. Our objective is to investigate the large-scale
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Spatiotemporal Data Augmentation of MODIS-Landsat Water Bodies Using Adversarial Networks Water Resour. Res. (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Soukaina Filali Boubrahimi, Ashit Neema, Ayman Nassar, Pouya Hosseinzadeh, Shah Muhammad Hamdi
With increasing demands for precise water resource management, there is a growing need for advanced techniques in mapping water bodies. The currently deployed satellites provide complementary data that are either of high spatial or high temporal resolutions. As a result, there is a clear trade-off between space and time when considering a single data source. For the efficient monitoring of multiple
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Nonlinear Formulation of Multicomponent Reactive Transport With Species-Specific Dispersion Properties Water Resour. Res. (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Rodrigo Pérez-Illanes, Maarten W. Saaltink, Daniel Fernàndez-Garcia
The modeling of reactive transport through porous media is a challenging numerical problem. Methods of solution have leveraged the stoichiometry of chemical reactions to address the transport of multiple aqueous species by expressing them in terms of an equivalent, linearly independent variable (component). This approach effectively decouples advection-dispersion transport from the source terms associated
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4D Neutron Imaging of Solute Transport and Fluid Flow in Sandstone Before and After Mineral Precipitation Water Resour. Res. (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Paiman Shafabakhsh, Benoît Cordonnier, Anne Pluymakers, Tanguy Le Borgne, Joachim Mathiesen, Gaute Linga, Yi Hu, Anders Kaestner, François Renard
In many geological systems, the porosity of rock or soil may evolve during mineral precipitation, a process that controls fluid transport properties. Here, we investigate the use of 4D neutron imaging to image flow and transport in Bentheim sandstone core samples before and after in-situ calcium carbonate precipitation. First, we demonstrate the applicability of neutron imaging to quantify the solute
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Deep Learning Integrating Scale Conversion and Pedo-Transfer Function to Avoid Potential Errors in Cross-Scale Transfer Water Resour. Res. (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Peijun Li, Yuanyuan Zha, Yonggen Zhang, Chak-Hau Michael Tso, Sabine Attinger, Luis Samaniego, Jian Peng
Pedo-transfer functions (PTFs) relate soil/landscape static properties to a wide range of model inputs (e.g., soil hydraulic parameters) that are essential to soil hydrological modeling. Combining PTFs and hydrological models is a powerful strategy allowing the use of soil/landscape static properties for the generalization of large-scale modeling. However, since the spatial scales of soil hydraulic
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The Evolution of Hillslope Hydrology: Links Between Form, Function and the Underlying Control of Geology Water Resour. Res. (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Anne Hartmann, Theresa Blume
Form and function are two major characteristics of hydrological systems. While form summarizes the structure of the system, function represents the hydrological response. Little is known about how these characteristics evolve and how form relates to function in young hydrological systems. We investigated how form and function evolve during the first millennia of landscape evolution. We analyzed two
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Capillary-Driven Backflow During Salt Precipitation in a Rough Fracture Water Resour. Res. (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Xu-Sheng Chen, Ran Hu, Chen-Xing Zhou, Yang Xiao, Zhibing Yang, Yi-Feng Chen
Salt precipitation is a crucial process occurring during CO2 injection into saline aquifers. It significantly alters the porous space, leading to reduced permeability and impaired injectivity. While the dynamics of precipitation have been studied within porous media, our understanding of precipitation patterns and permeability evolution within rough fractures remains inadequate. Here, we conduct flow-visualization
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Geologic Controls on Apparent Root-Zone Storage Capacity Water Resour. Res. (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 W. J. Hahm, D. N. Dralle, D. A. Lapides, R. S. Ehlert, D. M. Rempe
The water storage capacity of the root zone can determine whether plants survive dry periods and control the partitioning of precipitation into streamflow and evapotranspiration. It is currently thought that top-down, climatic factors are the primary control on this capacity via their interaction with plant rooting adaptations. However, it remains unclear to what extent bottom-up, geologic factors
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Hybrid Theory-Guided Data Driven Framework for Calculating Irrigation Water Use of Three Staple Cereal Crops in China Water Resour. Res. (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Yong Bo, Xueke Li, Kai Liu, Shudong Wang, Dehui Li, Yu Xu, Mengmeng Wang
Current irrigation water use (IWU) estimation methods confront uncertainties warranting further attention, primarily stemming from constraints within model structure and data quality. This study proposes a hybrid framework that integrates multiple machine learning (ML) methods with theory-guided strategies to calculate IWU for three principal cereal crops within the Chinese agricultural landscape.
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Detecting the Non-Separable Causality in Soil Moisture-Precipitation Coupling With Convergent Cross-Mapping Water Resour. Res. (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Yiyang Zhao, Enze Ma, Zhaoqiang Zhou, Yiguang Zou, Zhaodan Cao, Hejiang Cai, Ci Li, Yuhan Yan, Yan Chen
Soil moisture-Precipitation (SM-P) coupling, especially the causality from SM to P (SM → P), is an important and highly debated topic. The causal inference from observational data provides a statistical approach for this issue, where the experimental research is infeasible. Various causal inference methods exist, each assuming distinct underlying systems for the targeted variables: pure stochastic
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Developing a General Daily Lake Evaporation Model and Demonstrating Its Application in the State of Texas Water Resour. Res. (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Bingjie Zhao, Justin Huntington, Christopher Pearson, Gang Zhao, Thomas Ott, John Zhu, Andrew Weinberg, Kathleen D. Holman, Shuai Zhang, Ron Anderson, Maxwell Strickler, Jerry Cotter, Nelun Fernando, Kenneth Nowak, Huilin Gao
Open water evaporation, which often consumes a large fraction of annual storage (especially in arid and semi-arid regions), is a controlling variable for modern water resource management. Developing a daily reservoir evaporation data set is necessary for reservoir operations to consider the influence of evaporation in a timely manner. However, over the past few decades, the quantification of reservoir
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Collaborative Management of Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems Nexus in Central Asia Under Uncertainty Water Resour. Res. (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Yuan Ma, Yongping Li, Guohe Huang, Yuanrui Liu, Yufei Zhang
Collaborative management of the water-energy-food-ecosystems (WEFE) nexus can contribute significantly to sustainable development. However, multiple decision-making levels with diverse preferences and multiple uncertainties in different forms pose intractable challenges to the management process. In this study, a novel optimization method named as multi-level chance-constrained fuzzy programming (MCFP)
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Canopy Randomness, Scale, and Stem Size Effects on the Interfacial Transfer Process in Vegetated Flows Water Resour. Res. (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Chien-Yung Tseng, Rafael O. Tinoco
Aquatic vegetation plays an important role in natural water environments by interacting with the flow and generating turbulence that affects the air-water and sediment-water interfacial transfer. Regular and staggered arrays are often set as simplified layouts for vegetation canopy to study both mean flow and turbulence statistics in vegetated flows, which creates uniform spacing between vegetation
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Large Wood Transport and Accumulation Near the Separation Zone of a Channel Confluence Water Resour. Res. (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Saiyu Yuan, Yuchen Zheng, Hongwu Tang, Yihong Chen, Lei Xu, Colin Whittaker, Carlo Gualtieri
Fallen trees enter the adjacent stream and are carried away downstream by the current. As the stream joins another one, the complex hydrodynamics near their confluence make the movement of wood hard to predict. These woods may accumulate near the confluence resulting in backwater and subsequent potential flooding. A laboratory study was conducted to investigate the movement and accumulation behavior
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Global-Scale Groundwater Recharge Modeling Is Improved by Tuning Against Ground-Based Estimates for Karst and Non-Karst Areas Water Resour. Res. (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Wenhua Wan, Petra Döll, Hannes Müller Schmied
Quantification of groundwater recharge is highly important for understanding freshwater systems and sustainable management of both groundwater and surface water bodies, but it is very uncertain. To improve the global-scale simulation of diffuse groundwater recharge (GWR), we developed, for the first time in global hydrological modeling, an approach for explicitly simulating GWR in karst areas, based
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Predicting Ecosystem Net Primary Productivity by Percolation Theory and Optimality Principle Water Resour. Res. (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Allen G. Hunt, Muhammad Sahimi, Behzad Ghanbarian, German Poveda
The basic partitioning of precipitation P into evapotranspiration ET and run-off Q is known as the “central problem of hydrology.” ET depends primarily on precipitation, P, and potential evapotranspiration, PET, which are connected by the biological process of photosynthesis. Photosynthesis is the fundamental step underlying the productivity of plant ecosystems. An important measure of plant productivity
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Hydro-Sedimentary Processes of a Plunging Hyperpycnal River Plume Revealed by Synchronized Remote Imagery and Gridded Current Measurements Water Resour. Res. (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Stan Thorez, Ulrich Lemmin, D. Andrew Barry, Koen Blanckaert
The present knowledge of plunging hyperpycnal river plumes is mainly based on two-dimensional (confined) laboratory experiments. Several hypotheses on three-dimensional (unconfined) flow processes have been made, but not tested in situ. In this field study, the dominant three-dimensional hydro-sedimentary processes related to unconfined plunging were elucidated by synchronizing autonomous time-lapse
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Rainfall Frequency Analysis Based on Long-Term High-Resolution Radar Rainfall Fields: Spatial Heterogeneities and Temporal Nonstationarities Water Resour. Res. (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 James A. Smith, Mary Lynn Baeck, Andrew J. Miller, Elijah L. Claggett
Rainfall frequency analysis methods are developed and implemented based on high-resolution radar rainfall data sets, with the Baltimore metropolitan area serving as the principal study region. Analyses focus on spatial heterogeneities and time trends in sub-daily rainfall extremes. The 22-year radar rainfall data set for the Baltimore study region combines reflectivity-based rainfall fields during
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Simulating the Role of Biogeochemical Hotspots in Driving Nitrogen Export From Dryland Watersheds Water Resour. Res. (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-03 Jianning Ren, Erin J. Hanan, Aral Greene, Christina Tague, Alexander H. Krichels, William D. Burke, Joshua P. Schimel, Peter M. Homyak
Climate change and nitrogen (N) pollution are altering biogeochemical and ecohydrological processes in dryland watersheds, increasing N export, and threatening water quality. While simulation models are useful for projecting how N export will change in the future, most models ignore biogeochemical “hotspots” that develop in drylands as moist microsites in the soil become hydrologically disconnected
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Distinctive Patterns of Water Level Change in Swedish Lakes Driven by Climate and Human Regulation Water Resour. Res. (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 S. Aminjafari, I. A. Brown, F. Frappart, F. Papa, F. Blarel, F. V. Mayamey, F. Jaramillo
Despite having approximately 100,000 lakes, Sweden has limited continuous gauged lake water level data. Although satellite radar altimetry (RA) has emerged as a popular alternative to measure water levels in inland water bodies, it has not yet been used to understand the large-scale changes in Swedish lakes. Here, we quantify the changes in water levels in 144 lakes using RA data and in situ gauged
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Reply to Comment by W. Knoben and M. Clark on “The Treatment of Uncertainty in Hydrometric Observations: A Probabilistic Description of Streamflow Records” Water Resour. Res. (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Debora Y. de Oliveira, Jasper A. Vrugt
In this Reply, we address the concerns of Knoben and Clark (2023, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022WR034294) or KC23 that “the assumptions needed to effectively use difference-based variance estimation methods are not always met by hourly streamflow records.” There should be little doubt that the assumptions of our difference-based estimator will sometimes be violated in hourly streamflow records but the
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A Multi-Model Ensemble of Baseline and Process-Based Models Improves the Predictive Skill of Near-Term Lake Forecasts Water Resour. Res. (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-03 Freya Olsson, Tadhg N. Moore, Cayelan C. Carey, Adrienne Breef-Pilz, R. Quinn Thomas
Water temperature forecasting in lakes and reservoirs is a valuable tool to manage crucial freshwater resources in a changing and more variable climate, but previous efforts have yet to identify an optimal modeling approach. Here, we demonstrate the first multi-model ensemble (MME) reservoir water temperature forecast, a forecasting method that combines individual model strengths in a single forecasting
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Impacts of Permeability Uncertainty in a Coupled Surface-Subsurface Flow Model Under Perturbed Recharge Scenarios Water Resour. Res. (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-03 Nicholas B. Engdahl
Coupled simulations of surface and variably saturated subsurface flow, termed integrated hydrologic models (IHMs), can provide powerful insights into the complex dynamics of watersheds. The system of governing equations solved by an IHM is non-linear, making them a significant computational burden and challenging to accurately parameterize. Consequently, a large fraction of the IHM studies to date
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Revegetation Changes Main Erosion Type on the Gully–Slope on the Chinese Loess Plateau Under Extreme Rainfall: Reducing Gully Erosion and Promoting Shallow Landslides Water Resour. Res. (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Yangguang Xu, Li Luo, Wenzhao Guo, Zhao Jin, Pei Tian, Wenglong Wang
Extreme rainfall events pose a severe challenge to soil and water conservation, even in areas with high vegetation cover on the Loess Plateau. In this study, the artificial extreme rainfalls with cumulative rainfall of 270 mm and intensity of 60 mm · hr−1 were conducted on in-situ experimental plots (20 × 2.5 m) on a loess gully–slope with gradients of 35°–40° that were treated with different grass
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An Experimental Investigation on the Energy Signature Associated With Multiphase Flow in Porous Media Displacement Regimes Water Resour. Res. (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Shuangmei Zou, Dong Chen, Nong Kang, Congjiao Xie, Ryan T. Armstrong, Jianchao Cai
This study investigates the energy signature associated with multiphase flow in porous media displacement regimes. We proposed that net efficiency, as the conversion of external work applied to surface energy generated, provides new insights into the transition of flow regimes. The combined effects of wettability and flow rates on immiscible fluid-fluid displacement is experimentally investigated using
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Probabilistic Forecast of Multiphase Transport Under Viscous and Buoyancy Forces in Heterogeneous Porous Media Water Resour. Res. (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Farzaneh Rajabi, Hamdi A. Tchelepi
We develop a probabilistic approach to map parametric uncertainty to output state uncertainty in first-order hyperbolic conservation laws. We analyze this problem for nonlinear immiscible two-phase transport in heterogeneous porous media in the presence of a stochastic velocity field. The uncertainty in the velocity field can arise from incomplete descriptions of either porosity field, injection flux
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Introducing Pour Points: Characteristics and Hydrological Significance of a Rainfall-Concentrating Mechanism in a Water-Limited Woodland Ecosystem Water Resour. Res. (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Ashvath S. Kunadi, Tim Lardner, Richard P. Silberstein, Matthias Leopold, Nik Callow, Erik Veneklaas, Aryan Puri, Eleanor Sydney, Sally E. Thompson
The interception of rainfall by plant canopies alters the depth and spatial distribution of water arriving at the soil surface, and thus the location, volume, and depth of infiltration. Mechanisms like stemflow are known to concentrate rainfall and route it deep into the soil, yet other mechanisms of flow concentration are poorly understood. This study characterizes pour points, formed by the detachment
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A Machine Learning and Remote Sensing-Based Model for Algae Pigment and Dissolved Oxygen Retrieval on a Small Inland Lake Water Resour. Res. (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Maxwell R. W. Beal, Mutlu Özdoğan, Paul J. Block
Excessive algae growth can lead to negative consequences for ecosystem function, economic opportunity, and human and animal health. Due to the cost-effectiveness and temporal availability of satellite imagery, remote sensing has become a powerful tool for water quality monitoring. The use of remotely sensed products to monitor water quality related to algae and cyanobacteria productivity during a bloom
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Wetlands Water Level Measurements From the New Generation of Satellite Laser Altimeters: Systematic Spatial-Temporal Evaluation of ICESat-2 and GEDI Missions Over the South Florida Everglades Water Resour. Res. (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Sebastián Palomino-Ángel, Shimon Wdowinski, Shanshan Li
The ICESat-2 and GEDI missions were launched in 2018, becoming the new generation of space-borne laser altimeters. These missions provide unprecedented global geodetic elevations, opening great opportunities for water level monitoring. The potential of these altimeters has been demonstrated in open-water environments such as lakes, rivers, and reservoirs. However, detailed evaluations in vegetated
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Characterizing Offshore Freshened Groundwater Salinity Patterns Using Trans-Dimensional Bayesian Inversion of Controlled Source Electromagnetic Data: A Case Study From the Canterbury Bight, New Zealand Water Resour. Res. (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Zahra Faghih, Amir Haroon, Marion Jegen, Romina Gehrmann, Katrin Schwalenberg, Aaron Micallef, Jan Dettmer, Christian Berndt, Joshu Mountjoy, Bradley A. Weymer
The study of offshore freshened groundwater (OFG) is gaining importance due to population growth and environmental pressure on coastal water resources. Marine controlled source electromagnetic (CSEM) methods can effectively map the spatial extent of OFG systems using electrical resistivity as a proxy. Integrating these resistivity models with sub-surface properties, such as host-rock porosity, allows
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Anomalous Adsorption of PFAS at the Thin-Water-Film Air-Water Interface in Water-Unsaturated Porous Media Water Resour. Res. (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Wenqian Zhang, Bo Guo
Per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are interfacially-active contaminants that adsorb at air-water interfaces (AWIs). Water-unsaturated soils have abundant AWIs, which generally consist of two types: one is associated with the pendular rings of water between soil grains (i.e., bulk AWI) and the other arises from the thin water films covering the soil grains. To date, the two types of AWIs have
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Considering Uncertainty of Historical Ice Jam Flood Records in a Bayesian Frequency Analysis for the Peace-Athabasca Delta Water Resour. Res. (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Jared D. Smith, Jonathan R. Lamontagne, Martin Jasek
The Peace-Athabasca Delta in Alberta, Canada has numerous perched basins that are primarily recharged after large ice jams cause floods (an ecological benefit). Previous studies have estimated that such large floods are likely to decrease in frequency under various climate projections. However, there is a sizable uncertainty range in these predicted flood probabilities, in part due to the short 60-year
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Quantitative Evaluation of the Onset and Evolution for the Non-Darcy Behavior of the Partially Filled Rough Fracture Water Resour. Res. (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Shuai Zhang, Xiaoli Liu, Enzhi Wang
The non-Darcy flow behavior in unfilled and fully filled rough fractures has been investigated thoroughly for decades. Natural fractures usually be partially filled with porous media due to long-term internal and external dynamic disturbances and water flow erosion. However, how to evaluate the nonlinear seepage characteristics of the partially filled rough fracture (PFRF) is never scrutinized. In
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Modeling Hydrologically Mediated Hot Moments of Transient Anomalous Diffusion in Aquifers Using an Impulsive Fractional-Derivative Equation Water Resour. Res. (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Yong Zhang, Xiaoting Liu, Dawei Lei, Maosheng Yin, HongGuang Sun, Zhilin Guo, Hongbin Zhan
Hydrologically mediated hot moments (HM-HMs) of transient anomalous diffusion (TAD) denote abrupt shifts in hydraulic conditions that can profoundly influence the dynamics of anomalous diffusion for pollutants within heterogeneous aquifers. How to efficiently model these complex dynamics remains a significant challenge. To bridge this knowledge gap, we propose an innovative model termed “the impulsive
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Micro-Continuum Modeling: An Hybrid-Scale Approach for Solving Coupled Processes in Porous Media Water Resour. Res. (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Cyprien Soulaine
Micro-continuum models are versatile and powerful approaches for simulating coupled processes in two-scale porous systems. Initially oriented for modeling static single-phase flow in microtomography images with sub-voxel porosity, the concept has been extended over the years to multi-phase flow, reactive transport, and poromechanics. This paper introduces an integrated micro-continuum framework to
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Modeling Quality and Price Perception in the Choice of Drinking Water in France: A Hybrid Choice Model Approach Water Resour. Res. (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Olivier Beaumais, Romain Crastes dit Sourd
The water resources literature usually discards the important price difference between bottled water and tap water as a predictor of drinking water choice. In France, bottled water is about 100 times more expensive than tap water. Using 4,003 survey responses, we model water resources quality (mis)-perception and water price (mis)-perceptions by means of a hybrid choice model. We show that respondents
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Urbanization and Water Management Control Stream Water Quality Along a Mountain to Plains Transition Water Resour. Res. (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 S. F. Murphy, R. L. Runkel, E. G. Stets, A. J. Nolan, D. A. Repert
Urbanization can have substantial effects on water quality due to altered hydrology and introduction of constituents to water bodies. In arid and semi-arid environments, streams are further stressed by dewatering as a result of diversions. We conducted a high-resolution synoptic survey of two streams in Colorado, USA that transition abruptly from granitic/metamorphic forested mountains to sedimentary
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Assessing the Behavior of Microplastics in Fluvial Systems: Infiltration and Retention Dynamics in Streambed Sediments Water Resour. Res. (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Jan-Pascal Boos, Franz Dichgans, Jan H. Fleckenstein, Benjamin Silas Gilfedder, Sven Frei
Microplastics (MPs) have been detected ubiquitously in fluvial systems and advective transfer has been proposed as a potential mechanism for the transport of (sub-) pore-scale MPs from surface waters into streambed sediments. However, the influence of particle and sediment properties, as well as the hydrodynamic flow regime, on the infiltration behavior and mobility of MPs in streambed sediments remains
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Hydrodynamic Modeling of Stratification and Mixing in a Shallow, Tropical Floodplain Lake Water Resour. Res. (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Wencai Zhou, John M. Melack, Sally MacIntyre, Pedro M. Barbosa, Joao H. F. Amaral, Alicia Cortés
Floodplain lakes are widespread and ecologically important throughout tropical river systems, however data are rare that describe how temporal variations in hydrological, meteorological and optical conditions moderate stratification and mixing in these shallow lakes. Using time series measurements of meteorology and water-column temperatures from 17 several day campaigns spanning two hydrological years
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Coupling Deep Learning and Physically Based Hydrological Models for Monthly Streamflow Predictions Water Resour. Res. (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Wenxin Xu, Jie Chen, Gerald Corzo, Chong-Yu Xu, Xunchang John Zhang, Lihua Xiong, Dedi Liu, Jun Xia
This study proposes a new hybrid model for monthly streamflow predictions by coupling a physically based distributed hydrological model with a deep learning (DL) model. Specifically, a simplified hydrological model is first developed by optimally selecting grid cells from a distributed hydrological model according to their soil moisture characteristics. It is then driven by bias corrected general circulation
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Spatial Variation in Transit Time Distributions of Groundwater Discharge to a Stream Overlying the Northern High Plains Aquifer, Nebraska, USA Water Resour. Res. (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 C. Eric Humphrey, D. Kip Solomon, Troy E. Gilmore, Markus R. MacNamara, David P. Genereux, Aaron R. Mittelstet, Caner Zeyrek, Vitaly A. Zlotnik, Craig R. Jensen
Groundwater transit time distributions (TTDs) describe the spectrum of flow-weighted apparent ages of groundwater from aquifer recharge to discharge. Regional-scale TTDs in stream baseflow are often estimated from numerical models with limited calibration from groundwater sampling and suggest much younger groundwater discharge than has been observed by discrete age-dating techniques. We investigate
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Intense Human Activities Induce the Dynamic Changes of Interaction Pattern Between Karst Water-Quaternary Groundwater in the Basin-Mountain Coupling Belt Over the Past 60 Years Water Resour. Res. (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Chengcheng Li, Xubo Gao, Xuanli Xiang, Chunfang Jiang, Yan Duan, Wanzhou Wang, Xin Zhang, Ting Tan, Quanrong Wang, Yanxin Wang
Karst water are important for water supply and ecological protection. However, climate changes and human activities have caused severe water supply crisis. The Jinci spring, one of the famous karst springs in China, is located at the basin-mountain coupling belt and dried up since 1994. This study integrated hydrogeological conditions, water table logs, hydrogeochemistry, multiple isotopes, and numerical
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Regional Low Flow Hydrology: Model Development and Evaluation Water Resour. Res. (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Vinícius B. P. Chagas, Pedro L. B. Chaffe, Günter Blöschl
Low flows result from the interplay of climatic variability and catchment storage dynamics, but it is unclear which of these variables is more relevant for explaining low flow spatial patterns. Here, we develop a new conceptual model that integrates process-based hydrological knowledge with statistics and test it for 1,400 Brazilian catchments. Through comparative hydrology, we isolate the low flow
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General Local Reactive Boundary Condition for Dissolution and Precipitation Using the Lattice Boltzmann Method Water Resour. Res. (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 J. Weinmiller, M. P. Lautenschlaeger, B. Kellers, T. Danner, A. Latz
A general and local reactive boundary condition (RBC) for studying first-order equilibrium reactions using the lattice Boltzmann method is presented. Its main characteristics are accurate reproduction of wall diffusion, invariance to the wall and grid orientation, and absence of nonphysical artifacts. The scheme is successfully tested for different benchmark cases considering diffusion, advection,
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Leveraging ICESat, ICESat-2, and Landsat for Global-Scale, Multi-Decadal Reconstruction of Lake Water Levels Water Resour. Res. (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Fangfang Yao, Ben Livneh, Balaji Rajagopalan, Jida Wang, Kehan Yang, Jean-François Crétaux, Chao Wang, J. Toby Minear
Lakes provide important water resources and many essential ecosystem services. Some of Earth's largest lakes recently reached record-low levels, suggesting increasing threats from climate change and anthropogenic activities. Yet, continuous monitoring of lake levels is challenging at a global scale due to the sparse in situ gauging network and the limited spatial or temporal coverage of satellite altimeters
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Improving the Applicability of Lumped Hydrological Models by Integrating the Generalized Complementary Relationship Water Resour. Res. (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Xuxin Lei, Lei Cheng, Lu Zhang, Shujie Cheng, Shujing Qin, Pan Liu
Lumped hydrological models (LHMs) are indispensable for water resource planning and environmental studies due to simple structures and robust performances. LHMs commonly focus on runoff processes with crude representations for other hydrological processes, such as evapotranspiration (E). Therefore, these models may yield unrealistic water balance partitioning. The challenge is to enhance the LHMs performance
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Distribution and Characteristics of Blackwater Rivers and Streams of the Contiguous United States Water Resour. Res. (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Joseph E. Flotemersch, Karen A. Blocksom, Alan T. Herlihy, Philip R. Kaufmann, Richard M. Mitchell, David V. Peck
Blackwater rivers and streams have stained or tea-colored water from tannins released by decaying plant matter. Natural conditions in these waters often differ from non-blackwater systems. For example, the pH and oxygen levels in waters can be very low, but completely natural. We examined an existing USEPA data set and found that blackwaters existed across the contiguous United States but were most
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Rare Event Probability Estimation for Groundwater Inverse Problems With a Two-Stage Sequential Monte Carlo Approach Water Resour. Res. (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Lea Friedli, Niklas Linde
Bayesian inversions followed by estimations of rare event probabilities are often needed to analyze groundwater hazards. Instead of focusing on the posterior distribution of model parameters, the main interest lies then in the distribution of a specific quantity of interest contingent upon these parameters. To address the associated methodological challenges, we introduce a two-stage Sequential Monte
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A Novel Deep Learning Approach for Data Assimilation of Complex Hydrological Systems Water Resour. Res. (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Jiangjiang Zhang, Chenglong Cao, Tongchao Nan, Lei Ju, Hongxiang Zhou, Lingzao Zeng
In hydrological research, data assimilation (DA) is widely used to fuse the information contained in process-based models and observational data to reduce simulation uncertainty. However, many popular DA methods are limited by low computational efficiency or their reliance on the Gaussian assumption. To address these limitations, we propose a novel DA method called DA(DL), which leverages the capabilities
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Stream Network Dynamics of Non-Perennial Rivers: Insights From Integrated Surface-Subsurface Hydrological Modeling of Two Virtual Catchments Water Resour. Res. (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 F. Zanetti, G. Botter, M. Camporese
Understanding the spatio-temporal dynamics of runoff generation in headwater catchments is challenging, due to the intermittent and fragmented nature of surface flows. The active stream network in non-perennial rivers contracts and expands, with a dynamic behavior that depends on the complex interplay among climate, topography, and geology. In this work, CATchment HYdrology, an integrated surface–subsurface
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Reactive Transport Modeling in Porous Fractured Media: Application to Weathering Processes Water Resour. Res. (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Sylvain Favier, Yoram Teitler, Fabrice Golfier, Michel Cathelineau
Complex permeability distribution is frequently encountered in weathered rocks with inherited heterogeneities, such as networks of discontinuities that impact fluid flow and water-rock interactions. Reactive transport modeling is a powerful tool for analyzing fractured media's chemical weathering dynamics. In this study, two different ways to model the fracture-matrix interaction were explored. A 1D
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Institutional Dynamics Impact the Response of Urban Socio-Hydrologic Systems to Supply Challenges Water Resour. Res. (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Adam Wiechman, Sara Alonso Vicario, John M. Anderies, Margaret Garcia, Koorosh Azizi, George Hornberger
Designing urban water systems to respond to the accelerating and unpredictable changes of the Anthropocene will require changes not only to built infrastructure and operating rules, but also to the governance arrangements responsible for investing in them. Yet, inclusion of this political-economic feedback in dynamic models of infrastructure systems and socio-hydrology has lagged behind operational
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Characterizing Erosion and Deposition in and Around Riparian Vegetation Patches: Complex Flow Hydraulics, Sediment Supply, and Morphodynamic Feedbacks Water Resour. Res. (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Andrew W. Tranmer, Un Ji, Myeonghui Ahn, Sang Hwa Jung, Elowyn M. Yager
Riparian vegetation plays a fundamental role in alluvial channel evolution by modifying flow and sedimentation dynamics. To elucidate the roles of sediment supply, flow-dependent transport capacity, and morphodynamic feedbacks on the evolution of emergent vegetation patches over a single hydrograph, we conducted two experiments with different reach-scale sediment supplies: a high-supply experiment