Evaluating surface and subsurface water storage variations at small time and space scales from relative gravity measurements in semiarid Niger
| Autor: | Nathalie Benarrosh, Y. Nazoumou, Jérôme Demarty, Bernard Cappelaere, Jacques Hinderer, Guillaume Favreau, Maxime Mouyen, O. Robert, Nicolas Le Moigne, Marie Boucher, Christopher V. Henri, Sébastien Deroussi, Nicolas Boulain, Julia Pfeffer, M. Oi, Cédric Champollion |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Hydrology
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Gravimeter Water storage Soil science 010502 geochemistry & geophysics 01 natural sciences 6. Clean water Infiltration (hydrology) 13. Climate action Vadose zone Calibration Subsurface flow Surface water Groundwater Geology 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Water Science and Technology |
| Zdroj: | Water Resources Research. 49:3276-3291 |
| ISSN: | 0043-1397 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/wrcr.20235 |
| Popis: | [1] The acquisition of reliable data sets representative of hydrological regimes and their variations is a critical concern for water resource assessment. For the subsurface, traditional approaches based on probe measurements, core analysis, and well data can be laborious, expensive, and highly intrusive, while only yielding sparse data sets. For this study, an innovative field survey, merging relative microgravimetry, magnetic resonance soundings, and hydrological measurements, was conducted to evaluate both surface and subsurface water storage variations in a semiarid Sahelian area. The instrumental setup was implemented in the lower part of a typical hillslope feeding to a temporary pond. Weekly measurements were carried out using relative spring gravimeters during 3 months of the rainy season in 2009 over a 350 × 500 m2 network of 12 microgravity stations. Gravity variations of small to medium amplitude (≤220 nm s−2) were measured with accuracies better than 50 nm s−2, revealing significant variations of the water storage at small time (from 1 week up to 3 months) and space (from a couple of meters up to a few hundred meters) scales. Consistent spatial organization of the water storage variations were detected, suggesting high infiltration at the outlet of a small gully. The comparison with hydrological measurements and magnetic resonance soundings involved that most of the microgravity variations came from the heterogeneity in the vadose zone. The results highlight the potential of time lapse microgravity surveys for detecting intraseasonal water storage variations and providing rich space-time data sets for process investigation or hydrological model calibration/evaluation. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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