Artikel Z - Driver of hydrogeo systems - How measure GW recharge?

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Vadose zone recharge (infiltration)

Competition for water to become GW (flowing down by gravity) or being lost to atmosphere while being used by plants and trees.

How does the lysimeter work?

Isolate a piece of vadose zone in a tank and measure all incoming and outgoing water fluxes.
Direct measurement
Point measurement: how to extrapolate?
Expensive, labour intensive

How does the Chloride Mass Balance work and for which zone is it used?

  • Vadose zone
  • Chloride mass balance (CMB), works best in dry areas
  • P with Chloride dripples into vadose zone
  • Assumes: equal partitioning of PCp = DCuz is equal across vadose zone
  • The higher C deeper down in vadose zone, the lower the recharge
  • 300 mm/yr: bc it is easier to measure high concentrations of C lower in the soil
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Water Table Fluctuation (WTF)

  • Recharge should lead to an increase in water storage and thus water level (that is definition of recharge)
  • Phreatic aquifer: added water is accomodated via rise in water table
  • Take Specific yield into account (= smt with pore space?)
  • Equation: R = Sy dh/dt
  • Other things might cause WTF: air movement in vadose zone, GW abstraction, ET
  • Sy could be uncertain, but in coarse sediments will be close to porosity
  • Only shallow water table, doesn't say much about deeper water table

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