The Role of Anomalous Transport in Long-Term, Stream Water Chemistry Variability

Marco Dentz; James W. Kirchner; Erwin Zehe; Brian Berkowitz

doi:https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL104207

The Role of Anomalous Transport in Long-Term, Stream Water Chemistry Variability

Marco Dentz, James W. Kirchner, Erwin Zehe, Brian Berkowitz

Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Weizmann Institute of Science

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We investigate the occurrence of anomalous (non-Fickian) transport in an hydrological catchment system at kilometer scales and over a 36-year period. Using spectral analysis, we examine the fluctuation scaling of long-term time series measurements of a natural passive tracer (chloride), for rainfall and runoff. The scaling behavior can be described by a continuous time random walk (CTRW) based on a power-law distribution of transition times, which indicates two distinct power-law regimes in the distribution of overall travel times in the catchment. The CTRW provides a framework for assessing anomalous transport in catchments and its implications for water quality fluctuations.

Original language	English
Article number	e2023GL104207
Number of pages	8
Journal	Geophysical Research Letters
Volume	50
Issue number	14
Early online date	17 Jul 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL104207
State	Published - 28 Jul 2023

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Geophysics
General Earth and Planetary Sciences

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