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Modeling the Stream Water Nitrate Dynamics in a 60,000-km2 European Catchment, the Garonne, Southwest France

Modeling the Stream Water Nitrate Dynamics in a 60,000-km2 European Catchment, the Garonne, Southwest France

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Date of publication
декабря 2008
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ISBN / Resource ID
AGRIS:US201301574732
Pages
2155-2169

The spatial and temporal dynamics in the stream water NO3-N concentrations in a major European river-system, the Garonne (62,700 km2), are described and related to variations in climate, land management, and effluent point-sources using multivariate statistics. Building on this, the Hydrologiska Byrans Vattenbalansavdelning (HBV) rainfall-runoff model and the Integrated Catchment Model of Nitrogen (INCA-N) are applied to simulate the observed flow and N dynamics. This is done to help us to understand which factors and processes control the flow and N dynamics in different climate zones and to assess the relative inputs from diffuse and point sources across the catchment. This is the first application of the linked HBV and INCA-N models to a major European river system commensurate with the largest basins to be managed under the Water Framework Directive. The simulations suggest that in the lowlands, seasonal patterns in the stream water NO3-N concentrations emerge and are dominated by diffuse agricultural inputs, with an estimated 75% of the river load in the lowlands derived from arable farming. The results confirm earlier European catchment studies. Namely, current semi-distributed catchment-scale dynamic models, which integrate variations in land cover, climate, and a simple representation of the terrestrial and in-stream N cycle, are able to simulate seasonal NO3-N patterns at large spatial (>300 km2) and temporal (>or= monthly) scales using available national datasets.

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Tisseuil, Clement
Wade, Andrew J.
Tudesque, Loic
Lek, Sovan

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