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Catchments as reactors: a comprehensive approach for water fluxes and solute turnover

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Sustainable water quality management requires a profound understanding of water fluxes (precipitation, run-off, recharge, etc.) and solute turnover such as retention, reaction, transformation, etc. at the catchment or landscape scale. The Water and Earth System Science competence cluster (WESS, http://www.wess.info/) aims at a holistic analysis of the water cycle coupled to reactive solute transport, including soil–plant–atmosphere and groundwater–surface water interactions. To facilitate exploring the impact of land-use and climate changes on water cycling and water quality, special emphasis is placed on feedbacks between the atmosphere, the land surface, and the subsurface. A major challenge lies in bridging the scales in monitoring and modeling of surface/subsurface versus atmospheric processes. The field work follows the approach of contrasting catchments, i.e. neighboring watersheds with different land use or similar watersheds with different climate. This paper introduces the featured catchments and explains methodologies of WESS by selected examples.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by a grant from the Ministry of Science, Research and Arts of Baden-Württemberg (AZ Zu 33-721.3-2) and the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research—UFZ, Leipzig. Research in the Bode Catchment was in addition supported by TERENO (TERrestrial ENvironmental Observatories).

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  1. Water and Earth System Science Competence Cluster (WESS), Keplerstr. 17, 72074, Tübingen, Germany

    Peter Grathwohl, Hermann Rügner, Thomas Wöhling, Karsten Osenbrück, Marc Schwientek, Sebastian Gayler, Ute Wollschläger, Benny Selle, Marion Pause, Jens-Olaf Delfs, Matthias Grzeschik, Ulrich Weller, Martin Ivanov, Olaf A. Cirpka, Volker Wulfmeyer, Thilo Streck, Sabine Attinger, Peter Dietrich, Jan H. Fleckenstein, Olaf Kolditz & Hans-Jörg Vogel

  2. Center of Applied Geoscience, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Hölderlinstr. 12, 72074, Tübingen, Germany

    Peter Grathwohl, Olaf A. Cirpka, Ulrich Maier & Peter Dietrich

  3. Institute of Sanitary Engineering, Water Quality and Solid Waste Management, University of Stuttgart, Bandtäle 2, 70569, Stuttgart, Germany

    Bertram Kuch

  4. Institute for Modeling Hydraulic and Environmental Systems, University of Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 61, 70569, Stuttgart, Germany

    Wolfgang Nowak

  5. Institute of Physics and Meteorology, University of Hohenheim, Garbenstr. 30, 70599, Stuttgart, Germany

    Volker Wulfmeyer & Kirsten Warrach-Sagi

  6. Institute of Soil Science and Land Evaluation, University of Hohenheim, Emil-Wolff-Strasse 27, 70599, Stuttgart, Germany

    Thilo Streck

  7. UFZ-Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research, Permoserstraße 15, 04318, Leipzig, Germany

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Grathwohl, P., Rügner, H., Wöhling, T. et al. Catchments as reactors: a comprehensive approach for water fluxes and solute turnover. Environ Earth Sci 69, 317–333 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-013-2281-7

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