Journal article
Mesocosm experiments identifying hotspots of groundwater upwelling in a water column by fibre optic distributed temperature sensing
Hydrological processes, Vol.32(2), pp.185-199
01/15/2018
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.11403
Abstract
Lacustrine groundwater discharge (LGD) can substantially impact ecosystem characteristics and functions. Fibre optic distributed temperature sensing (FO-DTS) has been successfully used to locate groundwater discharge into lakes and rivers at the sediment–water interface, but locating groundwater discharge would be easier if it could be detected from the more accessible water surface. So far, it is not clear if how and under which conditions the LGD signal propagates through the water column to the water surface–atmosphere interface, and what perturbations and signal losses occur along this pathway. In the present study, LGD was simulated in a mesocosm experiment. Under winter conditions, water with temperatures of 14 to 16 °C was discharged at the bottom of a 10 × 2.8-m mesocosm. Water within this mesocosm ranged from 4.0 to 7.4 °C. Four layers (20, 40, 60, and 80 cm above the sediment) of the 82 cm deep mesocosm were equipped with FO-DTS for tracing thermal patterns in the mesocosm. Aims are (a) to test whether the positive buoyancy of relatively warm groundwater imported by LGD into shallow water bodies allows detection of LGD at the lake's water surface–atmosphere interface by FO-DTS, (b) to analyse the propagation of the temperature signal from the sediment-water interface through the water column, and (c) to learn more about detectability of the signal under different discharge rates and weather conditions. The experiments supported the benchmarking of scale dependencies and robustness of FO-DTS applications for measuring upwelling into aquatic environments and revealed that weather conditions can have important impacts on the detection of upwelling at water surface–atmosphere interfaces at larger scales.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Mesocosm experiments identifying hotspots of groundwater upwelling in a water column by fibre optic distributed temperature sensing
- Creators
- Amaya Irene Marruedo Arricibita - Department of Geography, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, GermanyStefan Krause - University of BirminghamJesus Gomez-Velez - New Mexico Institute of Mining and TechnologyDavid M. Hannah - University of BirminghamJörg Lewandowski - Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Hydrological processes, Vol.32(2), pp.185-199
- DOI
- 10.1002/hyp.11403
- ISSN
- 0885-6087
- eISSN
- 1099-1085
- Number of pages
- 15
- Grant note
- Natural Environment Research Council (http://data.elsevier.com/vocabulary/SciValFunders/501100000270) NE/L003872/1 / Natural Environment Research Council (http://data.elsevier.com/vocabulary/SciValFunders/501100000270) 60715 / European Union's Seventh Framework programme for research, technological development and demonstration
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/15/2018
- Academic Unit
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Record Identifier
- 9984962530802771
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