Next Article in Journal
Evaluation of Groundwater Suitability for Irrigation and Drinking Purposes in an Agricultural Region of the North China Plain
Next Article in Special Issue
Using Freshwater Heads to Analyze Flow Directions in Saline Aquifers of the Pingtung Plain, Taiwan
Previous Article in Journal
Key Drivers Influencing the Presence and Absence of Micropterus salmoides and Their Effect on Native Fish Communities and Biotic Integrity
Previous Article in Special Issue
Laboratory and Numerical Study of Saltwater Upconing in Fractured Coastal Aquifers
 
Search for Articles:
Title / Keyword
Author / Affiliation
Journal
Article Type
 
 
Advanced Search
 
Section
Special Issue
Volume
Issue
Number
Page
Journals
Water
Volume 13
Issue 23
10.3390/w13233431
water-logo
Submit to this Journal Review for this Journal Edit a Special Issue
► Article Menu

Article Menu

share announcement question_answer thumb_up
...
textsms
...
Article

On the Understanding of the Hydrodynamics and the Causes of Saltwater Intrusion on Lagoon Tidal Springs

by
Roger Pacheco-Castro
1,2,3,
Paulo Salles
2,3,*,
Cesar Canul-Macario
2 and
Alejandro Paladio-Hernandez
2
1
Catedras-CONACyT, Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, Ciudad de México 03940, Mexico
2
Laboratorio de Ingeniería y Procesos Costeros, Instituto de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Puerto de Abrigo S/N, Sisal 97355, Mexico
3
Laboratorio Nacional de Resiliencia Costera, Sisal 97355, Mexico
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Academic Editors: Longcang Shu and Fulin Li
Water 2021, 13(23), 3431; https://doi.org/10.3390/w13233431
Received: 5 October 2021 / Revised: 16 November 2021 / Accepted: 23 November 2021 / Published: 3 December 2021
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Coastal Aquifers: Seawater/Saltwater Intrusion)
View Full-Text Download PDF
Browse Figures
Review Reports

Abstract

Springs are common features on the Yucatán coast. They can discharge either under the sea (submarine) or inland in coastal lagoons and wetlands. Previous observations of a coastal lagoon located on the northern Yucatán Peninsula (La Carbonera) reported sea water intrusion on a spring that discharge on a coastal lagoon (lagoon tidal spring). The saltwater intrusion occurs when the tide is at its lower level, which is the opposite to what has been reported for submarine springs in the Yucatán Peninsula. In this study, the hydrodynamics of the spring is analyzed and the driving forces controlling the seawater intrusion are identified and discussed. Time series of water levels, salinity, and velocity measurements in the lagoon, the aquifer, and the spring are analyzed by means of tide component decomposition and cross-correlations analysis of the tide signals. Results show that the main driving forces causing the intrusion are the density differences and pressure head gradients, and the mechanisms influencing the driving forces driving those differences are the tides, the friction in the lagoon, and the confinement of the aquifer; other mechanisms are discussed to present a complete idea of the complexity of the interactions between the coastal aquifer, the coastal lagoons, and the sea. View Full-Text
Keywords: confined aquifer; coastal lagoons; tidal spring dynamics; Peten confined aquifer; coastal lagoons; tidal spring dynamics; Peten
►▼ Show Figures

Figure 1

This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited

Supplementary Material

SciFeed

Share and Cite

MDPI and ACS Style

Pacheco-Castro, R.; Salles, P.; Canul-Macario, C.; Paladio-Hernandez, A. On the Understanding of the Hydrodynamics and the Causes of Saltwater Intrusion on Lagoon Tidal Springs. Water 2021, 13, 3431. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13233431

AMA Style

Pacheco-Castro R, Salles P, Canul-Macario C, Paladio-Hernandez A. On the Understanding of the Hydrodynamics and the Causes of Saltwater Intrusion on Lagoon Tidal Springs. Water. 2021; 13(23):3431. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13233431

Chicago/Turabian Style

Pacheco-Castro, Roger, Paulo Salles, Cesar Canul-Macario, and Alejandro Paladio-Hernandez. 2021. "On the Understanding of the Hydrodynamics and the Causes of Saltwater Intrusion on Lagoon Tidal Springs" Water 13, no. 23: 3431. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13233431

Find Other Styles
Note that from the first issue of 2016, MDPI journals use article numbers instead of page numbers. See further details here.

Article Metrics

Article Access Map by Country/Region

1
Back to TopTop