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Winter, Carolin ; Tarasova, L. ; Lutz, Stefanie R. ; Musolff, Andreas ; Kumar, Rohini ; Fleckenstein, Jan:
Explaining the Variability in High-Frequency Nitrate Export Patterns Using Long-Term Hydrological Event Classification.
In: Water Resources Research.
Bd. 58
(2022)
Heft 1
.
- e2021WR030938.
ISSN 1944-7973
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2021WR030938
Abstract
Abstract Runoff events play an important role in nitrate export from catchments, but the variability of export patterns between events and catchments is high and the dominant drivers remain difficult to disentangle. Here, we rigorously asses if detailed knowledge on runoff event characteristics can help to explain this variability. To this end, we conducted a long-term (1955–2018) event classification using hydro-meteorological data, including rainfall characteristics, soil moisture and snowmelt, in six neighboring mesoscale catchments with contrasting land use. We related these event characteristics to nitrate export patterns from high-frequency nitrate concentration monitoring (2013–2017) using concentration-discharge (CQ) relationships. Our results show that low-magnitude rainfall-induced events with dry antecedent conditions exported lowest nitrate concentrations and loads but exhibited highly variable CQ relationships. We explain this by a low fraction of active flow paths, revealing the spatial heterogeneity of nitrate sources within the catchments and by an increased impact of biogeochemical retention processes. In contrast, high-magnitude rainfall or snowmelt-induced events exported highest nitrate concentrations and loads and converged to similar chemostatic export patterns across all catchments, without exhibiting source limitation. We explain these homogeneous export patterns by high catchment wetness that activated a high number of flow paths and by higher nitrate availability during high-flow seasons. Long-term hydro-meteorological data indicated an increased number of events with dry antecedent conditions in summer and a decreased number of snow-influenced events. These trends will likely continue and cause increased nitrate concentration variability during low-flow seasons and changes in the timing of nitrate export peaks during high-flow seasons.
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| Publikationsform: | Artikel in einer Zeitschrift |
|---|---|
| Begutachteter Beitrag: | Ja |
| Keywords: | water quality; nitrate export; runoff events; concentration-discharge relationships; high temporal resolution monitoring; catchment |
| Institutionen der Universität: | Fakultäten > Fakultät für Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften > Fachgruppe Geowissenschaften > Ehemalige ProfessorInnen Fakultäten > Fakultät für Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften > Fachgruppe Geowissenschaften > Ehemalige ProfessorInnen > Professur Hydrologische Modellierung - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jan Fleckenstein Forschungseinrichtungen > Forschungszentren > Bayreuther Zentrum für Ökologie und Umweltforschung - BayCEER |
| Titel an der UBT entstanden: | Ja |
| Themengebiete aus DDC: | 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik > 550 Geowissenschaften, Geologie |
| Eingestellt am: | 15 Mai 2023 07:22 |
| Letzte Änderung: | 15 Mai 2023 07:22 |
| URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/76421 |