Coupling SWAT and DPSIR models for groundwater management in Mediterranean catchments.

Autor: Ntona MM; Campania University 'Luigi Vanvitelli', Department of Environmental, Biological and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies, Via Vivaldi 43, 81100, Caserta, Italy; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Department of Geology, Laboratory of Engineering Geology & Hydrogeology, 54124, Thessaloniki, Greece., Busico G; Campania University 'Luigi Vanvitelli', Department of Environmental, Biological and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies, Via Vivaldi 43, 81100, Caserta, Italy., Mastrocicco M; Campania University 'Luigi Vanvitelli', Department of Environmental, Biological and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies, Via Vivaldi 43, 81100, Caserta, Italy., Kazakis N; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Department of Geology, Laboratory of Engineering Geology & Hydrogeology, 54124, Thessaloniki, Greece. Electronic address: kazakis@geo.auth.gr.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of environmental management [J Environ Manage] 2023 Oct 15; Vol. 344, pp. 118543. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Jul 04.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.118543
Abstrakt: Groundwater is an essential natural resource and has a significant role in human and environmental health as well as in the economy. Management of subsurface storage remains an important option to meet the combined demands of humans and ecosystems. The increasing need to find multi-purpose solutions to address water scarcity is a global challenge. Thus, the interactions leading to surface runoff and groundwater recharge have received particular attention over the last decades. Additionally, new methods are developed to incorporate the spatial-temporal variation of recharge in groundwater modeling. In this study, groundwater recharge was spatiotemporally quantified using the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) in the Upper Volturno-Calore hydrological basin in Italy and the results were compared with other two basins in Greece (Anthemountas and Mouriki). SWAT model was applied in actual and future projections (2022-2040) using the Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) 4.5 emissions scenario to evaluate changes in precipitation and assess the future hydrologic conditions, along with, the Driving Force-Pressure-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) framework that was applied in all the basins as a low-cost analysis of integrated physical, social, natural, and economic factors. According to the results, no significant variations in runoff are predicted in the Upper Volturno-Calore basin for the period 2020-2040 while the potential evapotranspiration percentage varies from 50.1% to 74.3% and infiltration around 5%. The limited primary data constitutes the main pressure in all sites and exaggerates the uncertainty of future projections.
Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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