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DOI | 10.1029/2018WR023815 |
A Race Against Time: Modeling Time Lags in Watershed Response | |
Ilampooranan, Idhayachandhiran1; Van Meter, K. J.2; Basu, Nandita B.1,2,3 | |
2019-05-01 | |
发表期刊 | WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH |
ISSN | 0043-1397 |
EISSN | 1944-7973 |
出版年 | 2019 |
卷号 | 55期号:5页码:3941-3959 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | Canada |
英文摘要 | Land use change and agricultural intensification have increased food production but at the cost of polluting surface and groundwater. Best management practices implemented to improve water quality have met with limited success. Such lack of success is increasingly attributed to legacy nutrient stores in the subsurface that may act as sources after reduction of external inputs. However, current water-quality models lack a framework to capture these legacy effects. Here we have modified the SWAT (Soil Water Assessment Tool) model to capture the effects of nitrogen (N) legacies on water quality under multiple land-management scenarios. Our new SWAT-LAG model includes (1) a modified carbon-nitrogen cycling module to capture the dynamics of soil N accumulation, and (2) a groundwater travel time distribution module to capture a range of subsurface travel times. Using a 502-km(2) Iowa watershed as a case study, we found that between 1950 and 2016, 25% of the total watershed N surplus (N Deposition + Fertilizer + Manure + N Fixation - Crop N uptake) had accumulated within the root zone, 14% had accumulated in groundwater, while 27% was lost as riverine output, and 34% was denitrified. In future scenarios, a 100% reduction in fertilizer application led to a 79% reduction in stream N load, but the SWAT-LAG results suggest that it would take 84years to achieve this reduction, in contrast to the 2years predicted in the original SWAT model. The framework proposed here constitutes a first step toward modifying a widely used modeling approach to assess the effects of legacy N on the time required to achieve water-quality goals. Plain Language Summary For nearly a century, we have used nitrogen fertilizers to boost crop yields. However, the environmental effects of fertilizer use have been severe. Drinking water with high nitrate levels threatens human health, and high nitrogen loads in rivers lead to the creation of dead zones in coastal waters that make it impossible for fish or underwater plants to survive. Although we have tried for decades to reduce nitrogen levels in our waterways, the results have been disappointing. Scientists now believe that improvements may be slow to come because there are large amounts of nitrogen that have accumulated in soil and groundwater-legacy nitrogen-that continue to pollute our rivers even after farmers have reduced fertilizer use or improved management. However, policymakers still struggle to predict how long it will take to improve water quality. In our work, we have created a new model, Soil Water Assessment Tool-LAG, that allows us to predict the time lags caused by legacy nitrogen. Using an agricultural watershed in Iowa as a case study, we show that it can take as long as 80years to see the full effects of new management practices and that these time lags must be considered when setting policy goals. |
领域 | 资源环境 |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000474848500018 |
WOS关键词 | ANTHROPOGENIC NITROGEN INPUTS ; ASSESSMENT-TOOL ; STREAM-FLOW ; CROP YIELD ; SWAT MODEL ; LAND-USE ; SOIL ; NITRATE ; EXPORT ; MISSISSIPPI |
WOS类目 | Environmental Sciences ; Limnology ; Water Resources |
WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Marine & Freshwater Biology ; Water Resources |
引用统计 | |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/183126 |
专题 | 资源环境科学 |
作者单位 | 1.Univ Waterloo, Dept Civil & Environm Engn, Waterloo, ON, Canada; 2.Univ Waterloo, Dept Earth & Environm Sci, Waterloo, ON, Canada; 3.Univ Waterloo, Water Inst, Waterloo, ON, Canada |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Ilampooranan, Idhayachandhiran,Van Meter, K. J.,Basu, Nandita B.. A Race Against Time: Modeling Time Lags in Watershed Response[J]. WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH,2019,55(5):3941-3959. |
APA | Ilampooranan, Idhayachandhiran,Van Meter, K. J.,&Basu, Nandita B..(2019).A Race Against Time: Modeling Time Lags in Watershed Response.WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH,55(5),3941-3959. |
MLA | Ilampooranan, Idhayachandhiran,et al."A Race Against Time: Modeling Time Lags in Watershed Response".WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH 55.5(2019):3941-3959. |
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