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    Simulating Groundwater-Streamflow Connections in the Upper Colorado River Basin

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    Tran, Hoang
    Zhang, Jun
    Cohard, Jean-Martial
    Condon, Laura E
    Maxwell, Reed M
    Affiliation
    Univ Arizona, Dept Hydrol & Atmospher Sci
    Issue Date
    2020-04-03
    
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    Tran, H., Zhang, J., Cohard, J.‐M., Condon, L.E. and Maxwell, R.M. (2020), Simulating Groundwater‐Streamflow Connections in the Upper Colorado River Basin. Groundwater, 58: 392-405. doi:10.1111/gwat.13000
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    GROUNDWATER
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    Abstract
    In mountain, snow driven catchments, snowmelt is supposed to be the primary contribution to river streamflows during spring. In these catchments the contribution of groundwater is not well documented because of the difficulty to monitor groundwater in such complex environment with deep aquifers. In this study we use an integrated hydrologic model to conduct numerical experiments that help quantify the effect of lateral groundwater flow on total annual and peak streamflow in predevelopment conditions. Our simulations focus on the Upper Colorado River Basin (UCRB; 2.8 × 105  km2 ) a well-documented mountain catchment for which both streamflow and water table measurements are available for several important sub-basins. For the simulated water year, our results suggest an increase in peak flow of up to 57% when lateral groundwater flow processes are included-an unexpected result for flood conditions generally assumed independent of groundwater. Additionally, inclusion of lateral groundwater flow moderately improved the model match to observations. The correlation coefficient for mean annual flows improved from 0.84 for the no lateral groundwater flow simulation to 0.98 for the lateral groundwater flow one. Spatially we see more pronounced differences between lateral and no lateral groundwater flow cases in areas of the domain with steeper topography. We also found distinct differences in the magnitude and spatial distribution of streamflow changes with and without lateral groundwater flow between Upper Colorado River Sub-basins. A sensitivity test that scaled hydraulic conductivity over two orders of magnitude was conducted for the lateral groundwater flow simulations. These results show that the impact of lateral groundwater flow is as large or larger than an order of magnitude change in hydraulic conductivity. While our results focus on the UCRB, we feel that these simulations have relevance to other headwaters systems worldwide.
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    12 month embargo; published online: 17 March 2020
    ISSN
    0017-467X
    EISSN
    1745-6584
    PubMed ID
    32181894
    DOI
    10.1111/gwat.13000
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    Final accepted manuscript
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