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DOI | 10.1029/2018GL078140 |
Groundwater Flow and Exchange Across the Land Surface Explain Carbon Export Patterns in Continuous Permafrost Watersheds | |
Neilson, Bethany T.1; 39;Connor, Michael T.2 | |
2018-08-16 | |
发表期刊 | GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
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ISSN | 0094-8276 |
EISSN | 1944-8007 |
出版年 | 2018 |
卷号 | 45期号:15页码:7596-7605 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | USA |
英文摘要 | Groundwater flow regimes in the seasonally thawed soils in areas of continuous permafrost are relatively unknown despite their potential role in delivering water, carbon, and nutrients to streams. Using numerical groundwater flow models informed by observations from a headwater catchment in arctic Alaska, United States, we identify several mechanisms that result in substantial surface-subsurface water exchanges across the land surface during downslope transport and create a primary control on dissolved organic carbon loading to streams and rivers. The models indicate that surface water flowing downslope has a substantial groundwater component due to rapid surface-subsurface exchanges across a range of hydrologic states, from unsaturated to flooded. Field-based measurements corroborate the high groundwater contributions, and river dissolved organic carbon concentrations are similar to that of groundwater across large discharge ranges. The persistence of these groundwater contributions in arctic watersheds will influence carbon export to rivers as thaw depth increases in a warmer climate. Plain Language Summary This paper shows that groundwater processes have a dominant role in controlling carbon export from the land to streams in permafrost terrain. We use hydrologic models to show that microtopography on the land surface drives the rapid exchange of overland flow with shallow groundwater. In other words, the water (porpoises) from just above to just below the land surface and back again as it moves downslope. Combined with the rapid leaching of organic carbon from soils, these findings provide a mechanistic explanation for two decades of measurements showing high concentrations of carbon in soils and streams during high flow conditions for both spring snowmelt and summer storms. During drier time periods, groundwater contributions from the thin thawed layer make up the flow in streams and keep dissolved organic carbon concentrations high. The persistence of these groundwater contributions in arctic watersheds will influence carbon export to rivers as thaw depth increases in a warmer climate. |
英文关键词 | groundwater arctic DOC transport groundwater surface water permafrost |
领域 | 气候变化 |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000443129500041 |
WOS关键词 | ARCTIC TUNDRA ; KUPARUK RIVER ; ALASKA ; DEGRADATION ; VEGETATION ; CATCHMENT ; DRAINAGE ; CLIMATE |
WOS类目 | Geosciences, Multidisciplinary |
WOS研究方向 | Geology |
引用统计 | |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/28626 |
专题 | 气候变化 |
作者单位 | 1.Utah State Univ, Utah Water Res Lab, Civil & Environm Engn, Logan, UT 84322 USA; 2.Univ Texas Austin, Dept Geol Sci, Jackson Sch Geosci, Austin, TX USA; 3.Univ Michigan, Dept Ecol & Evolutionary Biol, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Neilson, Bethany T.,39;Connor, Michael T.. Groundwater Flow and Exchange Across the Land Surface Explain Carbon Export Patterns in Continuous Permafrost Watersheds[J]. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS,2018,45(15):7596-7605. |
APA | Neilson, Bethany T.,&39;Connor, Michael T..(2018).Groundwater Flow and Exchange Across the Land Surface Explain Carbon Export Patterns in Continuous Permafrost Watersheds.GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS,45(15),7596-7605. |
MLA | Neilson, Bethany T.,et al."Groundwater Flow and Exchange Across the Land Surface Explain Carbon Export Patterns in Continuous Permafrost Watersheds".GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 45.15(2018):7596-7605. |
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