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Surface-Groundwater Interactions: Modeling and Uncertainty Analysis
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Surface-Groundwater Interactions: Modeling and Uncertainty Analysis

A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (11 March 2019) | Viewed by 12556

Special Issue Editors

Dr. David Rassam

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CSIRO Land & Water, POB 2583, Brisbane, Qld 4001, Australia
Interests: surface–groundwater interactions; modelling flow and transport in the vadose zone; uncertainty analysis
Dr. Mat Gilfedder

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CSIRO Land & Water, POB 2583, Brisbane, Qld 4001, Australia
Interests: surface–groundwater interactions; groundwater system responses to land-use change; combining data; catchment model development; salinity management
Dr. Jorge Martinez

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CSIRO Land & Water, POB 2583, Brisbane, Qld 4001, Australia
Interests: estimation of surface water-groundwater fluxes using environmental tracers; geochemical processes in the hyporheic zone and high-resolution datasets for GW-SW conceptualization systems

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The critical issues of water resource availability and ecological sustainability have highlighted the need for conjunctive management of water as a single resource. The interaction between surface and groundwater can greatly impact water quantity and quality, in both systems, with serious implications on ecosystems health, especially during low flow conditions.

This Special Issue focuses on a range of topics, including conjunctive water management, integrated surface-groundwater modelling, low flow hydrology, tracer and isotope applications, riparian and hyporheic zone processes, groundwater dependent ecosystems, floodplain inundation and ecological response, and interactions in wetlands.

We encourage submissions that involve the following applications:

  • Modelling of flow and transport at all scales with particular emphasis on integrating field data that include multiple lines of evidence, such as hydrochemical and isotopic characterisation. Modelling studies adopting surface water models that account for groundwater processes, and groundwater models that account for surface water processes, are both welcome. Surface water interactions triggered by stresses in shallow and deep aquifers are both within scope.
  • Incorporating sensitivity and uncertainty analyses to the modelling work.
  • The application of various tracers (including heat), and the use of novel remote sensing techniques for mapping baseflow and recharge-discharge zones.
  • Nitrogen transport and transformation in riparian and hyporheic zones with special emphasis on the application of oxygen and nitrogen stable isotopes.

Dr. David Rassam
Dr. Mat Gilfedder
Dr. Jorge Martinez
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • surface water groundwater interactions
  • flow modelling
  • transport modelling
  • baseflow
  • low flow hydrology
  • remote sensing
  • groundwater dependent ecosystems
  • riparian
  • hyporheic
  • isotopes
  • environmental tracers
  • uncertainty
  • nitrogen

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Interaction of Surface Water and Groundwater Influenced by Groundwater Over-Extraction, Waste Water Discharge and Water Transfer in Xiong’an New Area, China
by Meijia Zhu, Shiqin Wang, Xiaole Kong, Wenbo Zheng, Wenzhao Feng, Xianfu Zhang, Ruiqiang Yuan, Xianfang Song and Matthias Sprenger
Water 2019, 11(3), 539; https://doi.org/10.3390/w11030539 - 15 Mar 2019
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Understanding the interaction of surface water and groundwater affected by anthropogenic activities is of great importance for water resource and water quality management. The Xiong’an New Area, located in the North China Plain, has been designated a new building area by China’s government. [...] Read more.
Understanding the interaction of surface water and groundwater affected by anthropogenic activities is of great importance for water resource and water quality management. The Xiong’an New Area, located in the North China Plain, has been designated a new building area by China’s government. Groundwater has been over pumped and artificial water was transferred to meet the water supply in this region. Therefore, the natural interaction of surface water and groundwater has been greatly changed and there has been a complex impact of the groundwater from anthropogenic activities. In this study, we used water chemical ions and stable isotopes of δ2H and δ18O to assess the interaction of surface water and groundwater in the Xiong’an New Area. We carried out field surveys and water sampling of the Fu River (domestic waste water discharge), Lake Baiyangdian (artificial water transfer), and the underlying groundwater along the water bodies. Results show that the artificial surface water (discharged and transferred) became the major recharge source for the local groundwater due to the decline of groundwater table. We used groundwater table observations, end-member mixing analysis of the stable isotopic composition and chloride tracers to estimate the contributions of different recharge sources to the local groundwater. Due to the over pumping of groundwater, the lateral groundwater recharge was dominant with a contribution ratio ranging from 12% to 78% in the upper reach of the river (Sections 1–3). However, the contribution of lateral groundwater recharge was estimated to be negligible with respect to the artificial water recharge from Lake Baiyangdian. Seepage from the Fu River contributed a significant amount of water to the connecting aquifer, with a contribution ranging from 14% to 75% along the river. The extent of the river influence into the aquifer ranges as far as 1400 m to the south and 400 m to the north of the Fu River. Estimations based on isotopic fractionation shows that about 22.3% of Lake Baiyangdian water was lost by evaporation. By using the stable isotopes of oxygen and hydrogen in the lake water, an influencing range of 16 km west of the lake was determined. The interaction of the surface water and groundwater is completely changed by anthropogenic activities, such as groundwater over pumping, waste water discharge and water transfer. The switched interaction of surface water and groundwater has a significant implication on water resources management. Full article
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An Improved Method to Estimate Soil Hydrodynamic and Hydraulic Roughness Parameters by Using Easily Measurable Data During Flood Irrigation Experiments and Inverse Modelling
by Mohamed Alkassem Alosman, Stéphane Ruy, Samuel Buis, Patrice Lecharpentier, Jean Claude Bader, François Charron and Albert Olioso
Water 2018, 10(11), 1581; https://doi.org/10.3390/w10111581 - 05 Nov 2018
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Surface irrigation is known as a highly water-consuming system and needs to be optimized to save water. Models can be used for this purpose but require soil parameters at the field scale. This paper aims to estimate effective soil parameters by combining: (i) [...] Read more.
Surface irrigation is known as a highly water-consuming system and needs to be optimized to save water. Models can be used for this purpose but require soil parameters at the field scale. This paper aims to estimate effective soil parameters by combining: (i) a surface flow-infiltration model, namely CALHY; (ii) an automatic fitting algorithm based on the SIMPLEX method; and (iii) easily accessible and measurable data, some of which had never been used in such a process, thus minimizing parameter estimation errors. The validation of the proposed approach was performed through three successive steps: (1) examine the physical meaning of the fitted parameters; (2) verify the accuracy of the proposed approach using data that had not been served in the fitting process; and (3) validate using data obtained from independent irrigation events. Three parameters were estimated with a low uncertainty: the saturated hydraulic conductivity Ks, the hydraulic roughness k, and the soil water depletion ∆θ. The estimation uncertainty of the soil surface depressional storage parameter H0 was of the same order of magnitude of its value. All experimental datasets were simulated very well. Performance criteria were similar during both the fitting and validation stages. Full article
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Is the Groundwater in the Hunshandake Desert (Northern China) of Fossil or Meteoric Water Origin? Isotopic and Hydrogeochemical Evidence
by Bing-Qi Zhu, Xiao-Zong Ren and Patrick Rioual
Water 2018, 10(11), 1515; https://doi.org/10.3390/w10111515 - 25 Oct 2018
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To gain an insight into the origin of groundwater in the Hunshandake Desert (HSDK), stable and radioactive isotopes and the major ion hydrochemistry of groundwater, as well as other natural waters, were investigated in this desert. The results showed that the groundwaters in [...] Read more.
To gain an insight into the origin of groundwater in the Hunshandake Desert (HSDK), stable and radioactive isotopes and the major ion hydrochemistry of groundwater, as well as other natural waters, were investigated in this desert. The results showed that the groundwaters in the HSDK are freshwater (total dissolved solid (TDS) < 700 mg/L) and are depleted in δ2H and δ18O when compared with the modern precipitation. The major water types are the Ca–HCO3 and Ca/Mg–SO4 waters. No Cl-type and Na-type waters occurred in the study area. The ionic and depleted stable isotopic signals in groundwater, as well as the high values of tritium contents (5–25 TU), indicate that the groundwaters studied here are young but not of fossil and meteoric water origin, i.e., out of control by the modern and palaeo-direct recharge. A clear difference in the isotopic signals are observed between the groundwaters in the north and south parts of the study area, but the signals are similar between the groundwaters in the north HSDK catchment and its neighboring catchment, the Dali Basin. The topographical elevation decreases from the south (1396 m a.s.l.) to the north (1317 m a.s.l.) and the Dali (1226 m a.s.l.). Groundwaters in the north are characterized by lower chloride and TDS concentrations, higher tritium contents, higher deuterium excess, and more depleted values of δ2H and δ18O than those in the south. The spatial distribution pattern of these environmental parameters indicates a discrepancy between the hydraulic gradient of groundwater and the isotopic and hydrochemical gradients of groundwater in the HSDK, suggesting different recharge sources between the two parts in the desert. A combined analysis using the isotopic and physiochemical data of natural waters collected from the Dali Basin and the surrounding mountains was performed to investigate this problem. It indicates that groundwaters in the HSDK Desert are recharged from remote mountain areas (about 150–200 km to the east and southeast) but not from the north neighboring catchment. Full article
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