Runoff dynamics along hillslopes with groundwater springs in a mountainous sub-arctic catchment
Mountainous sub-arctic catchments typically consist of various landscape elements such as glaciers, steep topography, fractured rock outcrops and talus covered slopes, patches of permafrost, vegetated and non-vegetated shallow soils, wetlands, and lakes which are connected by surface and subsurface...
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ftgfzpotsdam:oai:gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de:item_5021787 2023-07-30T04:01:07+02:00 Runoff dynamics along hillslopes with groundwater springs in a mountainous sub-arctic catchment Frampton, A. Fischer, B. Clemenzi, I. Scaini, A. Hamm, A. 2023-07-11 https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_5021787 eng eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.57757/IUGG23-4354 https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_5021787 XXVIII General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject 2023 ftgfzpotsdam https://doi.org/10.57757/IUGG23-4354 2023-07-16T23:40:28Z Mountainous sub-arctic catchments typically consist of various landscape elements such as glaciers, steep topography, fractured rock outcrops and talus covered slopes, patches of permafrost, vegetated and non-vegetated shallow soils, wetlands, and lakes which are connected by surface and subsurface flows to stream networks. Hydrological flows are strongly influenced by snow and glacier melt that affects seasonal and annual runoff variability, both locally and downstream. This leads to great variability in flow to receiving hydrological systems, which makes it difficult to accurately quantify and predict water resources in downstream regions. Transport of waterborne substances such as solutes and nutrients are also extremely difficult to quantify due to this notable variability, and predictive capabilities are further hampered by still unknown effects of climate warming, which is expected to cause a change from glacial meltwater-dominated runoff to hillslope runoff. In this contribution, we present results from recent field tracer experiments along hillslopes associated with groundwater springs in the sub-arctic periglacial catchment of Tarfala, located in northern Sweden. We obtain breakthrough curves for different wet and dry antecedent moisture conditions based on seasonal variability. This is combined with rainfall-runoff recession analysis as well as physics-based numerical modelling to study and interpret the flow paths through the hillslope and its runoff-generating processes and the relative magnitudes of surface to shallow to deep subsurface runoff. Furthermore, we highlight how these model-based simulations can be used to study long-term changes of permafrost degradation and water and heat fluxes in mountainous sub-arctic catchments subject to climate change. Conference Object Arctic Climate change Northern Sweden permafrost Tarfala GFZpublic (German Research Centre for Geosciences, Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam) Arctic Tarfala ENVELOPE(18.608,18.608,67.914,67.914) |
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Mountainous sub-arctic catchments typically consist of various landscape elements such as glaciers, steep topography, fractured rock outcrops and talus covered slopes, patches of permafrost, vegetated and non-vegetated shallow soils, wetlands, and lakes which are connected by surface and subsurface flows to stream networks. Hydrological flows are strongly influenced by snow and glacier melt that affects seasonal and annual runoff variability, both locally and downstream. This leads to great variability in flow to receiving hydrological systems, which makes it difficult to accurately quantify and predict water resources in downstream regions. Transport of waterborne substances such as solutes and nutrients are also extremely difficult to quantify due to this notable variability, and predictive capabilities are further hampered by still unknown effects of climate warming, which is expected to cause a change from glacial meltwater-dominated runoff to hillslope runoff. In this contribution, we present results from recent field tracer experiments along hillslopes associated with groundwater springs in the sub-arctic periglacial catchment of Tarfala, located in northern Sweden. We obtain breakthrough curves for different wet and dry antecedent moisture conditions based on seasonal variability. This is combined with rainfall-runoff recession analysis as well as physics-based numerical modelling to study and interpret the flow paths through the hillslope and its runoff-generating processes and the relative magnitudes of surface to shallow to deep subsurface runoff. Furthermore, we highlight how these model-based simulations can be used to study long-term changes of permafrost degradation and water and heat fluxes in mountainous sub-arctic catchments subject to climate change. |
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Frampton, A. Fischer, B. Clemenzi, I. Scaini, A. Hamm, A. |
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Frampton, A. Fischer, B. Clemenzi, I. Scaini, A. Hamm, A. Runoff dynamics along hillslopes with groundwater springs in a mountainous sub-arctic catchment |
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Runoff dynamics along hillslopes with groundwater springs in a mountainous sub-arctic catchment |
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Runoff dynamics along hillslopes with groundwater springs in a mountainous sub-arctic catchment |
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Runoff dynamics along hillslopes with groundwater springs in a mountainous sub-arctic catchment |
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Runoff dynamics along hillslopes with groundwater springs in a mountainous sub-arctic catchment |
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runoff dynamics along hillslopes with groundwater springs in a mountainous sub-arctic catchment |
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