Groundwater-surface water exchange affects nitrogen and phosphorus exports from tideless rivers to a ria coast in the sea of Japan
Groundwater-surface water exchange affects nitrogen and phosphorus exports from tideless rivers to a ria coast in the sea of Japan
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地下水与地表水交换影响从无潮河流到日本海里亚海岸的氮和磷输出
DOI:
10.1016/j.jhydrol.2022.128045
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发表时间:
2022
影响因子:
6.4
通讯作者:
Ryo Sugimoto
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作者:
Toshimi Nakajima;Ryo Sugimoto
Groundwater discharge in downstream regions along the river continuum is considered a significant source of water and nutrients. However, the influence of groundwater discharge on the net export flux of surface water and nutrients from tideless rivers to coastal seas has not been thoroughly assessed. We conducted field surveys in the downstream region of six tideless rivers with different watershed properties along the ria coast of Wakasa Bay in the Sea of Japan during the summer. Mass balance models of water, salt, and222Rn were constructed to determine groundwater fluxes and associated fluxes of nitrogen and phosphorus. The model revealed that groundwater discharge ranged from 0.08 to 3.89 m d−1, accounting for 1.3–14.8% of the export flux. This variability among the rivers correlated with the riverbed slope in each river, indicating that the local topographic gradient was a significant factor controlling groundwater-surface water exchange in tideless rivers. Groundwater discharge accounted for 0.8–16.7% of the nitrogen export and 0.9–27.4% of the phosphorus export to coastal seas. We concluded that the groundwater inflow driven by the hydrological and geographic properties of the watershed in the downstream region of tideless rivers was nonnegligible for nutrient dynamics and biological production in the coastal seas.