Ripple Effects: Bed Form Morphodynamics Cascading Into Hyporheic Zone Biogeochemistry
Abstract
Sandy riverbeds are very rarely flat. They are typically covered by ripples and dunes. Because of their topography, these ripples and dunes drive variations in water pressure across their surfaces due to deflection, acceleration, and deceleration of the river flow. These pressure variations drive river water to infiltrate into the porous and permeable sediment where pressure is high and exit from the sediment where it is low. This pressure-driven flow, called hyporheic exchange, is critical to the water quality of rivers since it allows river water to undergo biogeochemical reactions that take place within the sediment. Ripples are highly dynamic however and respond readily to changes in river flow. How the migration and variable shape of ripples affect hyporheic exchange and the biogeochemical reactions it dictates is poorly understood and seldom studied. Here we bring concepts from ripple dynamics, river and groundwater hydraulics, and biogeochemistry into a unified modeling framework. The modeling was used to assess the effects of ripple migration on hyporheic zone biogeochemistry. We found that migrating ripples generally process less nitrate, a widespread pollutant, compared to their stationary counterparts. Thus, investigations and applications of hyporheic zone biogeochemical processes should pay attention to the dynamics of ripples.
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- Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States); Tianjin Normal Univ. (China)
- Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States)
- Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States); Tianjin Univ. (China)
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- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1612819
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1559378; OSTI ID: 1779413
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0018042
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Water Resources Research
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 55; Journal Issue: 8; Journal ID: ISSN 0043-1397
- Publisher:
- American Geophysical Union (AGU)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; 58 GEOSCIENCES; environmental sciences & ecology; marine & freshwater biology; water resources; ripples; hyporheic zone; denitrification; nitrogen; mobile bed forms; morphodynamics; river corridor, biogeochemistry, hyporheic zone
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Zheng, Lizhi, Cardenas, M. Bayani, Wang, Lichun, and Mohrig, David. Ripple Effects: Bed Form Morphodynamics Cascading Into Hyporheic Zone Biogeochemistry. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1029/2018wr023517.
Zheng, Lizhi, Cardenas, M. Bayani, Wang, Lichun, & Mohrig, David. Ripple Effects: Bed Form Morphodynamics Cascading Into Hyporheic Zone Biogeochemistry. United States. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018wr023517
Zheng, Lizhi, Cardenas, M. Bayani, Wang, Lichun, and Mohrig, David. Fri .
"Ripple Effects: Bed Form Morphodynamics Cascading Into Hyporheic Zone Biogeochemistry". United States. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018wr023517. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1612819.
@article{osti_1612819,
title = {Ripple Effects: Bed Form Morphodynamics Cascading Into Hyporheic Zone Biogeochemistry},
author = {Zheng, Lizhi and Cardenas, M. Bayani and Wang, Lichun and Mohrig, David},
abstractNote = {Sandy riverbeds are very rarely flat. They are typically covered by ripples and dunes. Because of their topography, these ripples and dunes drive variations in water pressure across their surfaces due to deflection, acceleration, and deceleration of the river flow. These pressure variations drive river water to infiltrate into the porous and permeable sediment where pressure is high and exit from the sediment where it is low. This pressure-driven flow, called hyporheic exchange, is critical to the water quality of rivers since it allows river water to undergo biogeochemical reactions that take place within the sediment. Ripples are highly dynamic however and respond readily to changes in river flow. How the migration and variable shape of ripples affect hyporheic exchange and the biogeochemical reactions it dictates is poorly understood and seldom studied. Here we bring concepts from ripple dynamics, river and groundwater hydraulics, and biogeochemistry into a unified modeling framework. The modeling was used to assess the effects of ripple migration on hyporheic zone biogeochemistry. We found that migrating ripples generally process less nitrate, a widespread pollutant, compared to their stationary counterparts. Thus, investigations and applications of hyporheic zone biogeochemical processes should pay attention to the dynamics of ripples.},
doi = {10.1029/2018wr023517},
journal = {Water Resources Research},
number = 8,
volume = 55,
place = {United States},
year = {2019},
month = {8}
}
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