Natural and Anthropic Groundwater Recharge in Arid and Semiarid Mountain
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Hydrology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2021) | Viewed by 1123
Special Issue Editors
Interests: hydrogeology; groundwater; karst aquifer; caves; speleogenesis; hydrogeochemistry; recharge
Interests: high-mountain hydrogeology; groundwater; karst aquifer; slope aquifer; recharge channels; Nature-based solutions
Interests: isotope hydrology; alpine hydrogeology; aquifer recharge; nature-based solutions; climate change
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
High mountain zones are known as “water towers” because they generate the main water resources that feed the lowlands. Nevertheless, in these zones, surface runoff, which represents a large portion of precipitation, leaves the hydrological watersheds very fast. Mountain aquifers provide a strategic water resource to downstream dependent ecosystems, especially in semi-arid regions where water is a limited resource. Characterizing both, the processes driving recharge and the mountain aquifer behavior is critical to correctly manage groundwater resources in these mountain zones, where the assessment of recharge is highly complex. There are many processes such as the snow depositional effects (e.g., advection, sublimation, melting, refreezing, etc.) and the precipitation and temperature vertical gradients that may heavily affect recharge. Additionally, transit times in mountain aquifers are often short, making groundwater resource management more of a challenge, even more so if climate change impacts are considered. Different water management techniques have been developed, some of them being ancestral, to increase both the mean transit time of water in the watersheds and the aquifer recharge rates.
This Special Issue will consider original contributions focused on aquifer recharge evaluation and characterization of processes driving recharge in mountain aquifers, but also on interesting techniques of conjunctive use of groundwater and surface water in mountain zones, to be used as adaptative measures to minimize the impact of climate change on water resources in mountain zones.
Dr. Juan José Durán
Dr. Sergio Martos Rosillo
Dr. Jorge Jódar Bermúdez
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- mountain hydrogeology
- aquifer recharge
- groundwater resources management
- climate change adaptation measures
- slope aquifers
- environmental tracers
- integrated water resources management
- water harvesting
- water sowing
- transit time
