Estimation of evapotranspiration losses in the vadose zone using stable isotopes and chloride mass balance method

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• 作者：Sandow Mark Yidana ; Obed Fiifi Fynn ; Dickson Adomako…
• 关键词：Chloride mass balance ; Evaporation ; Groundwater ; Isotopes ; Porewater ; Recharge ; Transpiration
• 刊名：Environmental Earth Sciences
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：February 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：75
• 期：3
• 全文大小：2,253 KB
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• 作者单位：Sandow Mark Yidana (1)
  Obed Fiifi Fynn (1)
  Dickson Adomako (2)
  Larry Pax Chegbeleh (1)
  Prosper M. Nude (1)
  
  1. Department of Earth Science, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana
  2. Ghana Atomic Energy Commission, Kwabenya, Accra, Ghana
  
• 刊物类别：Earth and Environmental Science
• 刊物主题：None Assigned
• 出版者：Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• ISSN：1866-6299

文摘

This study used stable isotope and chloride data of porewater to evaluate water fluxes through the vadose zone and thereby estimate evapotranspiration water losses in parts of the Nabogo catchment of the White Volta Basin in Ghana. The overall objective was to develop a framework so that the recharge regime can be properly conceptualized for numerical hydrological modeling. Unsaturated zone material was sampled at regular intervals of 50 cm to a maximum depth of 300 cm in four different locations in the study area. Rainwater, groundwater and surface water were simultaneously sampled and analyzed for their δ 18O and δ 2H characteristics. Porewater, extracted from the unsaturated zone material was analyzed for the δ 18O and δ 2H and chloride content and profiles were created to gauge the isotopic evolution of precipitation and estimate evaporative losses at each interval of the sampling. The chloride mass balance technique was used to estimate the fraction of infiltrating water remaining at each interval of the sampling. Transpiration losses through the entire profile were then estimated. This study finds that the vertical infiltration of water through the vadose zone is dominated by piston flow and a mixture of piston and preferential flows. In the shallow subsurface (0.0–3.0 m), evaporative losses estimated from stable isotope data fall in the range of 29.3–52.4 % (322.3–576.4 mm/year) of the annual precipitation, with an average of 40 % (or 440 mm/year). Estimated vadose zone recharge at the maximum depth of sampling ranges between 11.1 and 185 mm/year with an average of 32.9 mm/year, representing 1.1, 18.5, and 3.29 % of the annual precipitation, respectively. Estimated transpiration losses within this interval range between 29.1 % (290 mm/year) and 69.5 % (695 mm/year), with an average of 54.7 % (547 mm/year) of the annual precipitation. Transpiration losses appear to increase down the profile and apparently account for a significant percentage of water losses in the vadose zone. A significant proportion of the original precipitation is lost within the upper 300 cm (3 m) of the vadose zone. The Water Table Fluctuations method was independently used to estimate saturated zone groundwater recharge and indicates that recharge rates range between 64.65 and 151.2 mm/year with an average of 102.5 mm/year which, respectively represent 5.9, 13.7, and 9.3 % of the average annual precipitation in the area. The apparently higher estimates from the water table fluctuations method may arise from uncertainties in the specific yield values used for the vadose zone material.