On the hydrological difference between catchments above and below the intermittent-persistent snow transition     

Hannah N. Harrison  John C. Hammond  Stephanie Kampf  Leonie Kiewiet 《水文研究》2021,35(11):e14411

Because of the importance of snow for river discharge in mountain regions, hydrological research often focuses on seasonally snow-covered zones. However, in many basins the majority of the land surface area is intermittently snow-covered. Discharge monitoring in these areas is less common, so their contributions to downstream rivers remain largely unknown. We evaluated hydrological differences between three intermittently snow-covered (mean annual Jan 1–Jul 3 snow persistence <60%) and two seasonally snow-covered headwater catchments in the Colorado Front Range. We compared water balance variables to evaluate how and why discharge differs between the snow zones and estimated the relative contributions from each snow zone to regional river discharge. We focused on water years 2016–2019 and used a combination of in situ sensors and regional climate datasets. Annual discharge from the intermittent snow zone was low for all three catchments (10–77 mm), despite covering a wide range in annual snow persistence (25%–64%), whereas annual discharge from the seasonal snow zone was up to 73 times higher. Soil moisture in the seasonal snow zone was above field capacity for longer periods of time than in the intermittent snow zone, and the intermittent snow zone was uniquely subject to soil freezing (up to 102 days per year). For most of the year, potential evapotranspiration exceeded rainfall and snowmelt inputs in the intermittent snow zone, but was lower than rainfall and snowmelt inputs in the seasonal snow zone. This is likely a primary driver of the differences in soil moisture and discharge for catchments with a seasonal versus intermittent snow cover. Despite the large difference in discharge between these two snow zones, the intermittent snow zone contributed about a quarter of the discharge in the regional river, highlighting the importance of studying discharge generation across all elevations.  相似文献   

A soil moisture monitoring network to assess controls on runoff generation during atmospheric river events     

Edwin Sumargo  Hilary McMillan  Rachel Weihs  Carolyn J. Ellis  Anna M. Wilson  F. Martin Ralph 《水文研究》2021,35(1):e13998

Soil moisture is a key modifier of runoff generation from rainfall excess, including during extreme precipitation events associated with Atmospheric Rivers (ARs). This paper presents a new, publicly available dataset from a soil moisture monitoring network in Northern California's Russian River Basin, designed to assess soil moisture controls on runoff generation under AR conditions. The observations consist of 2-min volumetric soil moisture at 19 sites and 6 depths (5, 10, 15, 20, 50, and 100 cm), starting in summer 2017. The goals of this monitoring network are to aid the development of research applications and situational awareness tools for Forecast-Informed Reservoir Operations at Lake Mendocino. We present short analyses of these data to demonstrate their capability to characterize soil moisture responses to precipitation across sites and depths, including time series analysis, correlation analysis, and identification of soil saturation thresholds that induce runoff. Our results show strong inter-site Pearson's correlations (>0.8) at the seasonal timescale. Correlations are strong (>0.8) during events with high antecedent soil moisture and during drydown periods, and weak (<0.5) otherwise. High event runoff ratios are observed when antecedent soil moisture thresholds are exceeded, and when antecedent runoff is high. Although local heterogeneity in soil moisture can limit the utility of point source data in some hydrologic model applications, our analyses indicate three ways in which soil moisture data are valuable for model design: (1) sensors installed at 6 depths per location enable us to identify the soil depth below which evapotranspiration and saturation dynamics change, and therefore choose model soil layer depths, (2) time series analysis indicates the role of soil moisture processes in controlling runoff ratio during precipitation, which hydrologic models should replicate, and (3) spatial correlation analysis of the soil moisture fluctuations helps identify when and where distributed hydrologic modelling may be beneficial.  相似文献   

秦巴山区植被覆盖与土壤湿度时空变化特征及其相互关系   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

翟雅倩  张翀  周旗  常宵移 《地球信息科学学报》2018,20(7):967-977

基于2001-2014年MODIS-NDVI和MODIS-LST数据,利用温度植被干旱指数对土壤湿度进行遥感反演,分析了秦巴山区植被覆盖与土壤湿度时空变化特征及其相互关系。研究发现：① 秦巴山区植被覆盖与土壤湿度均呈增加趋势;② 植被覆盖整体水平较高且表现出“四周低,中间高”的空间分布特征,土壤湿度整体表现出“北低南高”的空间分布特征,大体上二者呈现出空间分布正相关性;③ 植被改善趋势表现明显,显著改善区分布分散,无明显集中区域,退化区域主要集中于北部渭河沿岸及东部边缘少量地区;土壤湿度增长态势明显,增大区分布于除西北边缘及东北边缘外的几乎整个研究区中,减小区域面积小且大部分表现不显著;④ 秦巴山区植被覆盖与土壤湿度时空变化上呈现出明显的正相关性,其中69.71%的区域表现出土壤湿度增大-植被覆盖改善的特征,分布于研究区除四周边缘地带外的大部分地区。  相似文献   

三门峡地区黄土状粉质黏土非饱和性质试验研究     

黄志全  陈宇  宋日英  宋丽娟 《岩土力学》2010,31(6):1759-1762

以三门峡地区黄土状粉质黏土为研究对象,通过控制重塑土样的干密度及含水率制备不同状态下的试样,在改进的三轴仪上采用不排水试验法,分别对试样进行非饱和土三轴试验。试验结果表明,黄土状粉质黏土的基质吸力变化规律与土的基本状态有着密切关系,尤其是在相同含水率、相同围压、不同干密度的状态下基质吸力会随着饱和度的增加,出现先增后减的变化规律。通过单元土体中土颗粒组成的结构体参数,分析了这种变化规律。  相似文献   

黏土颗粒含量对蒋家沟泥石流启动影响分析   总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4  

陈中学  汪稔  胡明鉴  王志兵  徐东升 《岩土力学》2010,31(7):2197-2201

黏土颗粒在泥石流中的含量并不大,但却显著地影响着泥石流的启动。在室内通过筛分配成9种不同黏粒含量级配的土体,在自行设计的模型槽内以1.64 g/cm3（松散干密度）,1.79、1.94 g/cm3（天然干密度）3种干密度堆成边坡模型,在雨强为85 mm/h下进行人工降雨试验,初步探讨了黏土颗粒含量对泥石流启动的影响,得到：黏粒含量在5%～18%时可以形成泥石流,其中黏粒含量10%时所需时间最短,低于5%或大于18%难以形成泥石流,黏粒含量具有临界性;填筑干密度越大,泥石流启动越困难,表现在启动时间长、深度浅、规模小、且填筑干密度不改变黏粒含量临界性;降雨条件下土体入渗率越高,泥石流越容易启动产流。通过试验的研究,可以深入揭示泥石流形成的内在机制,黏粒含量临界性为泥石流预测、预报提供了新思路。  相似文献   

Towards the estimation root-zone soil moisture via the simultaneous assimilation of thermal and microwave soil moisture retrievals     

Fuqin Li  Wade T. Crow  William P. Kustas 《Advances in water resources》2010

The upcoming deployment of satellite-based microwave sensors designed specifically to retrieve surface soil moisture represents an important milestone in efforts to develop hydrologic applications for remote sensing observations. However, typical measurement depths of microwave-based soil moisture retrievals are generally considered too shallow (top 2–5 cm of the soil column) for many important water cycle and agricultural applications. Recent work has demonstrated that thermal remote sensing estimates of surface radiometric temperature provide a complementary source of land surface information that can be used to define a robust proxy for root-zone (top 1 m of the soil column) soil moisture availability. In this analysis, we examine the potential benefits of simultaneously assimilating both microwave-based surface soil moisture retrievals and thermal infrared-based root-zone soil moisture estimates into a soil water balance model using a series of synthetic twin data assimilation experiments conducted at the USDA Optimizing Production Inputs for Economic and Environmental Enhancements (OPE³) site. Results from these experiments illustrate that, relative to a baseline case of assimilating only surface soil moisture retrievals, the assimilation of both root- and surface-zone soil moisture estimates reduces the root-mean-square difference between estimated and true root-zone soil moisture by 50% to 35% (assuming instantaneous root-zone soil moisture retrievals are obtained at an accuracy of between 0.020 and 0.030 m³ m⁻³). Most significantly, improvements in root-zone soil moisture accuracy are seen even for cases in which root-zone soil moisture retrievals are assumed to be relatively inaccurate (i.e. retrievals errors of up to 0.070 m³ m⁻³) or limited to only very sparse sampling (i.e. one instantaneous measurement every eight days). Preliminary real data results demonstrate a clear increase in the R² correlation coefficient with ground-based root-zone observations (from 0.51 to 0.73) upon assimilation of actual surface soil moisture and tower-based thermal infrared temperature observations made at the OPE³ study site.  相似文献   

“0801南方雪灾”水汽通量与降水关系的SVD分析   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

杨玮  何金海  王佳  王盘兴 《热带气象学报》2011,(5):697-702

利用2008年1月10日—2月2日的NCEP/NCAR逐日风场、比湿、地面气压资料以及中国地面国际交换站194站的逐日降水资料,分析我国“0801南方雪灾”期间水汽通量场的特征,结果表明我国南方是整层水汽通量及其散度的高值区。用奇异值分解（SVD）方法,分析了水汽输送通量异常场和降水异常场之间的关系,揭示出两对统计显著且天气意义清晰的耦合模态。其中,第一对模态的方差贡献率为81.50%,相应左、右奇异向量时间系数的相关系数为0.80,主要描述源自孟加拉湾及南海的西南风水汽输送异常增强并在我国川、滇、黔交界处及粤、闽、赣一带辐合时,长江以南大部分地区多雨;第二对模态方差贡献率为8.80%,相关系数为0.64,主要描述当中国大陆东部有源自西太平洋的水汽输送异常增强并在广西-浙江沿线区域辐合时,长江中下游流域多雨,但华南三省（广西、广东和福建）少雨。   相似文献   

基于变湿应力概念的膨胀土初始开裂分析   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

吴珺华  袁俊平  卢廷浩 《岩土力学》2011,32(6):1631-1636

含水率变化时膨胀土体积会产生吸水膨胀或失水收缩,这与温度变化时一般材料的反应相似。当土体的胀缩变形受到约束时就会产生应力,据此提出了变湿应力的概念。借用温度应力理论分析思路,基于弹性力学理论,采用变湿应力来计算土体的胀缩变形,建立了用含水率变化计算变湿应力的理论模型。揭示了裂隙产生的机理是不同埋深处土体水分丧失速率的不同,产生了不均匀的收缩变形。提出了膨胀土初始开裂的临界变湿判据,经比较与实测结果较一致。利用该模型,推导了地表蒸发条件下膨胀土的裂隙初始开展深度,并对其与土体变形模量、胀缩特征参数等的关系进行了讨论。  相似文献   

1980-2012年青藏高原土壤湿度时空演变特征     

石磊  杜军  周刊社  卓嘎 《冰川冻土》2016,38(5):1241-1248

基于美国气候预测中心（CPC）土壤湿度资料和80个青藏高原气象观测站的降水、气温资料,对青藏高原土壤湿度时空演变、突变,及土壤湿度与降水、气温的关系进行了分析.结果表明：青藏高原土壤湿度呈自东南向西北递减的分布特征,土壤湿度与降水量在空间上有很好的对应关系,在时间上存在2~4个月的时滞相关.1980-2012年高原土壤湿度呈显著增多趋势,土壤湿度变化发生突变的年份为2003年.在土壤湿度变化过程中,降水和气温的作用明显,5-10月降水量和1-6月气温是影响高原土壤湿度变化的主要因素.5-10月降水量决定了多水期的土壤湿度,而多水期土壤湿度和1-6月气温共同决定了少水期的土壤湿度.  相似文献   

渗滤液水位以下垃圾体产气对孔隙压力影响研究     

居朦萌  施建勇 《岩土力学》2016,37(Z1):381-390

为了研究渗滤液水位以下产气对孔隙压力的影响,从孔隙气在渗滤液水位以下特定的流动状态出发,采用峰值产气模型,结合了达西定律、理想气体状态方程和多孔介质流体动力学理论,建立了渗滤液水位以下考虑产气作用的气液迁移模型。运用差分法对产气引起的气液迁移问题进行了数值求解。计算结果表明,渗滤液水位以下垃圾体的产气对孔隙压力的影响主要有渗滤液渗流引起的附加孔隙压力和水位升高引起的附加孔隙压力,按孔隙气所处阶段的不同可以分为孔隙气被封闭时孔压积聚阶段、孔隙气突破孔隙水封闭时的孔压急剧消散阶段以及由对流作用控制的气液运移阶段;高产气速率、高渗滤液水位和低渗透系数都会使得垃圾体内产生较高的孔隙压力;降低填埋场内渗滤液水位是减小产气对孔隙压力影响的有效措施。  相似文献