Author:
von Brömssen Claudia,Fölster Jens,Kyllmar Katarina,Bieroza Magdalena
Abstract
AbstractConcentration-discharge relationships in water chemical time series can provide important insights into sources, mobilization, and delivery of solutes and particulates into stream networks. The observed relationships are often complex, including nonlinear and hysteretic patterns reflecting seasonal, climatic, and land management changes in biogeochemical release and hydrological transport of solutes and particulates to streams. Using standard single concentration-discharge (c-q) slopes can obscure this wealth of information. In this study, we suggest a new approach using generalized additive models for evaluation of complex c-q patterns in low-frequency water quality data (only monthly or biweekly observations). We used these models to estimate c-q slopes together with their uncertainty, to provide evidence of changes in c-q behaviors and their controls. We estimated c-q slopes for a selection of Swedish streams and evaluated their nonlinear, seasonal, and temporal structure as indicators of changing hydrological or biochemical drivers.
Funder
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
General Environmental Science
Cited by
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