Scale-dependent spatial variabilities of hydrological exchange flows and transit time in a large regulated river
Abstract
Hydrological exchange flows (HEF) across the river-aquifer interface and the associated residence time of river water in the aquifer have important implications for contaminant plume migration and biogeochemical processes in the river corridor. HEFs and residence time are influenced by both subsurface physical features and hydrologic forcing related to the transport process, which can exhibit complex spatial and temporal variations. In this study, we used a massively parallel subsurface flow model and a particle-tracking model to study the influences of different control factors on spatial variability of HEFs and residence time distributions (RTD) in the Hanford Reach of the Columbia River in Washington State. A total number of 100M particles were randomly injected in time and space and then tracked in a model domain that covers a 51-km2 area (15.1M model cells). We used hourly river stages and groundwater levels to drive the model to provide dynamic velocity fields for the particle tracking in the simulation period that was longer than 2 years. The groundwater flow simulation and particle-tracking results provide the first comprehensive assessment of the spatial distribution of HEFs and residence time in large complex river corridors. Overall, our results show that the aquifer hydrogeological structure has themore »
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- Research Org.:
- Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1811696
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1783348
- Report Number(s):
- PNNL-SA-152146
Journal ID: ISSN 0022-1694
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-76RL01830
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of Hydrology
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 598; Journal ID: ISSN 0022-1694
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; hydrological exchange flow; residence time distribution; large rivers; spatial and spectral analysis; hyporehic zone; discrete wavelet transform; surface water-groundwater interactions; river corridor; subsurface hydrogeology
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Song, Xuehang, Fang, Yilin, Bao, Jie, Ren, Huiying, Duan, Zhuoran, Perkins, William A., Zhou, Huifen, Hou, Zhangshuan, Chen, Yunxiang, and Scheibe, Timothy D. Scale-dependent spatial variabilities of hydrological exchange flows and transit time in a large regulated river. United States: N. p., 2021.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126283.
Song, Xuehang, Fang, Yilin, Bao, Jie, Ren, Huiying, Duan, Zhuoran, Perkins, William A., Zhou, Huifen, Hou, Zhangshuan, Chen, Yunxiang, & Scheibe, Timothy D. Scale-dependent spatial variabilities of hydrological exchange flows and transit time in a large regulated river. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126283
Song, Xuehang, Fang, Yilin, Bao, Jie, Ren, Huiying, Duan, Zhuoran, Perkins, William A., Zhou, Huifen, Hou, Zhangshuan, Chen, Yunxiang, and Scheibe, Timothy D. Tue .
"Scale-dependent spatial variabilities of hydrological exchange flows and transit time in a large regulated river". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126283. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1811696.
@article{osti_1811696,
title = {Scale-dependent spatial variabilities of hydrological exchange flows and transit time in a large regulated river},
author = {Song, Xuehang and Fang, Yilin and Bao, Jie and Ren, Huiying and Duan, Zhuoran and Perkins, William A. and Zhou, Huifen and Hou, Zhangshuan and Chen, Yunxiang and Scheibe, Timothy D.},
abstractNote = {Hydrological exchange flows (HEF) across the river-aquifer interface and the associated residence time of river water in the aquifer have important implications for contaminant plume migration and biogeochemical processes in the river corridor. HEFs and residence time are influenced by both subsurface physical features and hydrologic forcing related to the transport process, which can exhibit complex spatial and temporal variations. In this study, we used a massively parallel subsurface flow model and a particle-tracking model to study the influences of different control factors on spatial variability of HEFs and residence time distributions (RTD) in the Hanford Reach of the Columbia River in Washington State. A total number of 100M particles were randomly injected in time and space and then tracked in a model domain that covers a 51-km2 area (15.1M model cells). We used hourly river stages and groundwater levels to drive the model to provide dynamic velocity fields for the particle tracking in the simulation period that was longer than 2 years. The groundwater flow simulation and particle-tracking results provide the first comprehensive assessment of the spatial distribution of HEFs and residence time in large complex river corridors. Overall, our results show that the aquifer hydrogeological structure has the strongest correlation with the extent and magnitude of exchange flux. The residence time exhibits complex patterns that are impacted by all the river geomorphologic, hydrodynamic, and hydrogeologic factors and are strongly correlated with the downwelling ratio of exchange flux. The new insights gained through this study can be used to support the development of reduced-order models of HEFs and RTDs for large complex river systems.},
doi = {10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126283},
journal = {Journal of Hydrology},
number = ,
volume = 598,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Apr 06 00:00:00 EDT 2021},
month = {Tue Apr 06 00:00:00 EDT 2021}
}
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