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Inferring watershed hydraulics and cold-water habitat persistence using multi-year air and stream temperature signals

Overview of attention for article published in Science of the Total Environment, May 2018
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Title
Inferring watershed hydraulics and cold-water habitat persistence using multi-year air and stream temperature signals
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Science of the Total Environment, May 2018
DOI 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.04.344
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Martin A. Briggs, Zachary C. Johnson, Craig D. Snyder, Nathaniel P. Hitt, Barret L. Kurylyk, Laura Lautz, Dylan J. Irvine, Stephen T. Hurley, John W. Lane

Abstract

Streams strongly influenced by groundwater discharge may serve as "climate refugia" for sensitive species in regions of increasingly marginal thermal conditions. The main goal of this study is to develop paired air and stream water annual temperature signal analysis techniques to elucidate the relative groundwater contribution to stream water and the effective groundwater flowpath depth. Groundwater discharge to streams attenuates surface water temperature signals, and this attenuation can be diagnostic of groundwater gaining systems. Additionally, discharge from shallow groundwater flowpaths can theoretically transfer lagged annual temperature signals from aquifer to stream water. Here we explore this concept using multi-year temperature records from 120 stream sites located across 18 mountain watersheds of Shenandoah National Park, VA, USA and a coastal watershed in Massachusetts, USA. Both areas constitute important cold-water habitat for native brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis). Observed annual temperature signals indicate a dominance of shallow groundwater discharge to streams in the National Park, in contrast to the coastal watershed that has strong, apparently deeper, groundwater influence. The average phase lag from air to stream signals in Shenandoah National Park is 11 d; however, extended lags of approximately 1 month were observed in a subset of streams. In contrast, the coastal stream has pronounced attenuation of annual temperature signals without notable phase lag. To better understand these observed differences in signal characteristics, analytical and numerical models are used to quantify mixing of the annual temperature signals of surface and groundwater. Simulations using a total heat budget numerical model indicate groundwater-induced annual temperature signal phase lags are likely to show greater downstream propagation than the related signal amplitude attenuation. The measurement of multi-seasonal paired air and water temperatures offers great promise toward understanding catchment processes and informing current cold-water habitat management at ecologically-relevant scales.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 19 24%
Student > Master 15 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 19%
Other 6 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 5%
Other 8 10%
Unknown 13 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 21 26%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 13 16%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 13 16%
Engineering 8 10%
Arts and Humanities 2 3%
Other 1 1%
Unknown 22 28%
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