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Sediment and Contaminant Dynamics Across Scales

Sediment and Contaminant Dynamics Across Scales . Landscape as Cascading Hydrologic and Biogeochemical Filters. Session 2 Nandita Basu (University of Iowa) Suresh Rao (Purdue University) Aaron Packman (Northwestern) Session 3 Marwan Hassan (UBC) Aaron Packman (Northwestern).

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Sediment and Contaminant Dynamics Across Scales

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  1. Sediment and Contaminant Dynamics Across Scales Landscape as Cascading Hydrologic and Biogeochemical Filters Session 2 Nandita Basu (University of Iowa) Suresh Rao (Purdue University) Aaron Packman (Northwestern) Session 3 Marwan Hassan (UBC) Aaron Packman (Northwestern)

  2. Conceptual Framework:Hierarchical, Non-linear Filters and Cascading Waves Reach Scale Hillslope Climate and Veg: Rain, ET Mgmt.: Chemical Inputs overland flow Source Release Model subsurface flow Water Column Vadose Zone : Storage, Transport Retardation, Transformations groundwater flow Saturated Zone : Transport, Retardation Transformations sediment Emergent Patterns

  3. Approach: Pattern Based Patterns offer a window into landscape processes … and a starting point for hypotheses Hypotheses Testing: • WHAT are the “emergent” patterns? – Data • HOW are they created? – Models Hypotheses Generation: • WHEN will they cease to exist --- tipping points • Data-based (comparative hydrology) • Model-based

  4. Patterns that Intrigued us….. Nitrate load-discharge relationships across Mississippi Sediment load-discharge relationships

  5. Patterns that Intrigued us….. Why are they linear? Or, Why are Watersheds Chemostatic? At what scale are they chemostatic? Nitrate load-discharge relationships across Mississippi Sediment load-discharge relationships

  6. How do reach scale patterns translate to network scale: Spatio-Temporal Averaging Reach-Scale Denitrification rate constant (d-1) NETWORK SCALE Same Inverse Dependence REACH SCALE Inverse relationship between denitrification and stream depth Donner et al. (2004) Bohlke et al. (2008) 6

  7. Motivating Questions: Can we understand the dominant classes of behavior of landscapes that will pave the way towards catchment biogeochemical classification? How are sediments and contaminants (dissolved and sediment bound) generated in the hillslope? How do sediments and contaminants get translated through the network?

  8. Filtering of solute variability across scales

  9. Hypothesis: Landscapes act as cascading,coupled filters Observed “patterns” are windows into this filtering Filtering of variable inputs by landscape structure and biogeochemical processes produces PATTERNS, as water and solutes cascade across spatial and temporal scales

  10. Four examples of solute filtering Event filtering in the vadose zone C vs Q: Data analysis across scales C vs Q: Models to understand controls Flow and denitrification in networks

  11. Event filtering in the vadose zone

  12. HEIST: A 1-D event-based model of solute loads filtered by the vadose zone

  13. Model reveals controls on clustering of events and emergence of extremes Effects of soil depth: Effects of degradation rate: Increasing degradation rates Increasing depth Solute mass out Solute mass in Clustering in time Increased non-linearity of filter “Extreme outcomes driven by normal inputs” Clustering of transported mass

  14. Concentration vs Discharge: Data analysis across scales

  15. Intra-annual filtering of nitrate more complex than less bioactive solutes in experimental watersheds Sulfate Sulfate Nitrate Nitrate Chloride Chloride Hubbard Brook WS2 Cumulative outputs over each year Cumulative oututs over each year Cumulative precipitation Cumulative discharge Complex filtering of Nitrate Simpler, but stronger filtering of less bioactive compounds

  16. Flow and Nitrate decouple at larger spatial scales, except for specific events, in a data-rich agricultural watershed Single tile drain (0.03 km2) Q-C strongly coupled Watershed (186 km2) Episodically coupled Flow vs Nitrate coherence analysis on 10 years of daily data

  17. Landuse and climate control mean [N], and interannual variability is dampened, at Mississippi watershed scale Annual NO2 + NO3 Load (t/km2/yr) Annual Discharge 106 m3/km2/yr At larger scales, inter-anual variability in concentration is dampened Average concentration influenced by climate + land-use + ...

  18. Concentration vs Discharge: Models to understand controls

  19. Multiple models used to test hypotheses about origins of observed patterns MRF model - Conceptual hillslope coupled to network THREW model - Representative Elementary Watershed Storage-dependent CSTR model Multi-compartment flow and BGC process model Storage

  20. Chemostatic Q – C behavior linked to: B) Interaction of forcing and filter timescales A) Storage – dependentreaction rates Reaction time Residence time Event input frequency C) Averaging effects of the network

  21. Flow and denitrification in networks

  22. Reach scale dependence on stage shown to produce intriguing patterns when up-scaled in time and space Simon Donner (UBC) IBIS-THMB model simulations (65 sq km grid resolution) Bohlke 2008 k = 0.06/h In-stream N Removal Temporal averagingover year Spatial averaging over network Runoff (mm) REACH SCALE Inverse relationship between denitrification and stream depth k = 0.2/h

  23. Order from complexity • Solute filtering behavior most complex at • small scales • more bioactive solutes • Critical control on filtering: • Coupling of flow and reaction rates • Timescales of forcing, processing • Spatial structure of the network • Models built around event filtering can reproduce patterns of • Episodic leaching • Nitrate concentration vs discharge • Denitrification across scales

  24. Sediment transport: legacy, intermittency and land use

  25. Study Sites Rio Isabena, Spain Goodwin Creek, Mississippi

  26. Landscape and Network Filtering of Sediment Transport Rainfall Bank Erosion Land Management Runoff, Suspended Sediment Deposition and Resuspension Cuml. Load Q(t) Cuml. Flow

  27. Hillslope Filtering Precipitation Deviations from the Mean (mm) Flow Sediment Mobilized 1982 1997 Years Deviations from the Mean (kg) Deviations from the Mean (m) 1997 1982 1997 1982 Years Years

  28. Hillslope Filtering Precipitation Deviations from the Mean (mm) Flow ~ unfiltered precipitation Flow Sediment Mobilized 1982 1997 Years Deviations from the Mean (kg) Deviations from the Mean (m) 1997 1982 1997 1982 Years Years

  29. Hillslope Filtering Precipitation Deviations from the Mean (mm) Sediment ~ flow filtered Flow Sediment Mobilized 1982 1997 Years Deviations from the Mean (kg) Deviations from the Mean (m) 1997 1982 1997 1982 Years Years

  30. Hillslope Filtering Precipitation Deviations from the Mean (mm) Sediment ~ flow filtered Flow Sediment Mobilized 1982 1997 Years Deviations from the Mean (kg) Deviations from the Mean (m) Increased Disturbance 1997 1982 1997 1982 Years Years

  31. 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 EXCEEDENCE PROBABILITY 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 NORMALIZED FLOW AND LOAD Hillslope Filtering – Land Use FLOW LOAD CHANGE IN LANDUSE

  32. Reach Mass Balance

  33. Quantification of Bank Erosion 1997/3/4 1996/12/9 1996/4/24

  34. Sediment Transport – Waves INPUT Concentration Flow Sediment Concentration in Bed Length Down Reach (m)

  35. Sediment Transport – Waves INPUT Concentration Flow Sediment Concentration in Bed Length Down Reach (m)

  36. Sediment Transport – Waves INPUT Concentration Flow Sediment Concentration in Bed Length Down Reach (m)

  37. Sediment Transport – Waves INPUT Concentration Flow Sediment Concentration in Bed Length Down Reach (m)

  38. Sediment transport behaviour • Reproduces features of export patterns

  39. Basin-Scale Filtering Land Use Intervention Load – relatively homogeneous Load – highlights channel contributions

  40. Consequences • Intact ecosystems  more filtering • Network has “memory” • Responses vary in space, time • Filtering: • Nonlinear (e.g. hillslopes) • Episodic (e.g. legacy) • Stochastic (e.g. bank failure)

  41. Order out of Complexity Catchment Scale: Nutrient Increasing depth Solute mass out Vadose Zone Solute mass in Network Scale Sediment

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