Isotope Hydrological Tools to Understand Groundwater–Surfacewater Interactions
A special issue of Geosciences (ISSN 2076-3263). This special issue belongs to the section "Hydrogeology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2019)
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue of Geosciences aims to provide valuable insight into isotopes and environmental tracer tools, techniques, and applications to study catchment scale hydrology by gathering high-quality original research articles, reviews, and technical notes.
Due to continuous deterioration of water quality in surface and groundwater storages and an increase in different types of pollution problems, there is a clear need to understand how human activities and different catchment properties create a continuum and end up causing specific problems in water quality or amount of water on a catchment scale. Isotopes and other environmental tracers offer valuable and environmentally friendly tools to identify water origin, water-flow processes, and the mixing of different water fractions, not only on a catchment scale but also globally. These tools are frequently used for decades, but recently analysis techniques have been developed, so that smaller concentrations can be detected. This has further produced new possibilities to apply some environmental tracers (such as 17O) that have not been previously used that often. Furthermore, continuous monitoring methods (e.g., for stable isotopes of water) are now available, enabling one to study the dynamic behaviour of flow and mixing processes that have not been fully discovered by isotope techniques so far. Especially, groundwater–surface water interactions have dynamic characteristics (producing seasonal and annual fluctuation) that are still quite poorly understood.
This is why I would like to invite you to submit articles about your recent work, experimental research, or case studies, with respect to the above and/or the following topics:
- Changes in groundwater–surface water interactions caused by human activities
- Access of vulnerability of groundwater–surface water interactions by isotope methods
- Understanding runoff-rainfall processes applying isotopes and environmental tracers
- Hydrological continuum and water quality problems on a catchment scale
- Isotope and tracer methods and tools to study pollution transportation
I also encourage you to send me a short abstract outlining the purpose of the research and the principal results obtained, in order to verify at an early stage if the contribution you intend to submit fits with the objectives of the Special Issue.
Dr. Anna-Kaisa Ronkanen
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- catchment scale hydrology
- environmental tracers
- groundwater–surface water interactions
- climate change
- pollutant transportation
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