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Catchments as reactors: a comprehensive approach for water fluxes and solute turnover

Authors: Peter Grathwohl, Hermann Rügner, Thomas Wöhling, Karsten Osenbrück, Marc Schwientek, Sebastian Gayler, Ute Wollschläger, Benny Selle, Marion Pause, Jens-Olaf Delfs, Matthias Grzeschik, Ulrich Weller, Martin Ivanov, Olaf A. Cirpka, Ulrich Maier, Bertram Kuch, Wolfgang Nowak, Volker Wulfmeyer, Kirsten Warrach-Sagi, Thilo Streck, Sabine Attinger, Lars Bilke, Peter Dietrich, Jan H. Fleckenstein, Thomas Kalbacher, Olaf Kolditz, Karsten Rink, Luis Samaniego, Hans-Jörg Vogel, Ulrike Werban, Georg Teutsch

Published in: Environmental Earth Sciences | Issue 2/2013

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Sustainable water quality management requires a profound understanding of water fluxes (precipitation, run-off, recharge, etc.) and solute turnover such as retention, reaction, transformation, etc. at the catchment or landscape scale. The Water and Earth System Science competence cluster (WESS, http://www.wess.info/) aims at a holistic analysis of the water cycle coupled to reactive solute transport, including soil–plant–atmosphere and groundwater–surface water interactions. To facilitate exploring the impact of land-use and climate changes on water cycling and water quality, special emphasis is placed on feedbacks between the atmosphere, the land surface, and the subsurface. A major challenge lies in bridging the scales in monitoring and modeling of surface/subsurface versus atmospheric processes. The field work follows the approach of contrasting catchments, i.e. neighboring watersheds with different land use or similar watersheds with different climate. This paper introduces the featured catchments and explains methodologies of WESS by selected examples.

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Title: Catchments as reactors: a comprehensive approach for water fluxes and solute turnover
Authors: Peter Grathwohl
Hermann Rügner
Thomas Wöhling
Karsten Osenbrück
Marc Schwientek
Sebastian Gayler
Ute Wollschläger
Benny Selle
Marion Pause
Jens-Olaf Delfs
Matthias Grzeschik
Ulrich Weller
Martin Ivanov
Olaf A. Cirpka
Ulrich Maier
Bertram Kuch
Wolfgang Nowak
Volker Wulfmeyer
Kirsten Warrach-Sagi
Thilo Streck
Sabine Attinger
Lars Bilke
Peter Dietrich
Jan H. Fleckenstein
Thomas Kalbacher
Olaf Kolditz
Karsten Rink
Luis Samaniego
Hans-Jörg Vogel
Ulrike Werban
Georg Teutsch
Publication date: 01-05-2013
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: Environmental Earth Sciences / Issue 2/2013
Print ISSN: 1866-6280
Electronic ISSN: 1866-6299
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-013-2281-7

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