Subsurface release and transport of dissolved carbon in a discontinuous permafrost region

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 3827-3839

  Jantze, E J ^a   Lyon, S W ^a   Destouni, G ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE TRAVEL TIME; CARBON TRANSPORT; DISCONTINUOUS PERMAFROST; DISSOLVED CARBONS; DISSOLVED INORGANIC CARBON; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; SUBSURFACE RELEASE; SUBSURFACE WATERS;

CARBON; CATCHMENTS; PERMAFROST; TRAVEL TIME;

DISSOLUTION;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CARBON FLUX; CATCHMENT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FLOW PATTERN; PERMAFROST; SUBARCTIC REGION; SUBSURFACE FLOW; TRAVEL TIME;

ABISKOJOKK; NORRBOTTEN; SWEDEN;

EID: 84885636242     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-17-3827-2013     Document Type: Article

References (61)

1. ACIA: Impacts of a Warming Arctic: Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, Cambridge Universtiy Press, Cambridge, UK, 2005.
2. Allen, C. E., Darmody, R. G., Thorn, C. E., Dixon, J. C., and Schlyter, P.: Clay mineralogy, chemical weathering and landscape evolution in Arctic-Alpine Sweden, Geoderma, 99, 277-294, 2001. (Pubitemid 32116687)
3. Basu, N. B., Destouni, G., Jawitz, J. W., Thompson, S. E., Louki-nova, N. V., Darracq, A., Zanardo, S., Yaeger, M., Sivapalan, M., Rinaldo, A., and Rao, P. S. C.: Nutrient loads exported from managed catchments reveal emergent biogeochemical stationarity, Geophys. Res. Lett., 37, L23404, doi:10.1029/2010GL045168, 2010.
4. Berner, R. A.: Weathering, plants, and the long-term carbon cycle, Geochim. Cosmochim. Ac., 56, 3225-3231, doi:10.1016/0016-7037(92)90300-8, 1992. (Pubitemid 23384382)
5. Bosson, E., Sabel, U., Gustafsson, L.-G., Sassner, M., and Destouni, G.: Influences of shifts in climate, landscape, and permafrost on terrestrial hydrology, J. Geophys. Res., 117, D05120, doi:10.1029/2011JD016429, 2012.
6. Box, G. E. P., Jenkins, G. M., and Reinsel, G. C.: Time series analysis: forecasting and 474 control, Wiley series in probability and statistics, 99-3448675-X, Wiley, Oxford, 2008.
7. Brown, J., Ferrians Jr., O. J., Heginbottom, J. A., and Melnikov, E. S.: Circum-Arctic map of permafrost and ground-ice conditions, revised February 2001 Edn., NSIDC/WDC for Glaciology, Boulder, CO, Digital media, 1998.
8. Burgman, J. O., Calles, B., and Westman, F.: Conclusions from a ten year study of oxygen-8 in precipitation and runoff in Sweden, in: Isotope techniques in water resources development. IAEA Division of Publications, ISBN 92-0-040087-6, 815 pp., 1987.
9. Callaghan, T. V., Bergholm, F., Christensen, T. R., Jonasson, C., Kokfelt, U., and Johansson, M.: A new climate era in the subArctic: Accelerating climate changes and multiple impacts, Geo-phys. Res. Lett., 37, L14705, doi:10.1029/2009GL042064, 2010.
10. Carey, S. K.: Dissolved organic carbon fluxes in a discontinuous permafrost subarctic alpine catchment, Permafrost Periglac., 14, 161-171, 2003. (Pubitemid 36901323)
11. Carey, S. K. and Quinton, W. L.: Evaluating snowmelt runoff generation in a discontinuous permafrost catchment using stable isotope, hydrochemical and hydrometric data, Nord. Hydrol., 35, 309-324, 2004. (Pubitemid 40067712)
12. Carey, S. K. and Woo, M. K.: Spatial variability of hillslope water balance, wolf creek basin, subarctic yukon, Hydrol. Process., 15, 3113-3132, 2001. (Pubitemid 33082939)
13. Clark, J. M., Chapman, P. J., Adamson, J. K., and Lane, S. N.: Influence of drought-induced acidification on the mobility of dissolved organic carbon in peat soils, Global Change Biol., 11, 791-809, 2005. (Pubitemid 40721749)
14. Cole, J. J., Prairie, Y. T., Caraco, N. F., McDowell, W. H., Tran-vik, L. J., Striegl, R. G., Duarte, C. M., Kortelainen, P., Downing, J. A., Middelburg, J. J., and Melack, J.: Plumbing the Global Carbon Cycle: integrating inland waters into the terrestrial carbon budget, Ecosystems, 10, 171-184, 2007. (Pubitemid 46825795)
15. Cvetkovic, V.: The tempered one-sided stable density: a universal model for hydrological transport?, Environ. Res. Lett., 6, 034008, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/6/3/034008, 2011.
16. Cvetkovic, V. and Dagan, G.: Transport of kinetically sorbing solute by steady random velocity in heterogeneous porous formations, J. Fluid. Mech., 265, 189-215, doi:10.1017/S0022112094000807, 1994. (Pubitemid 281541)
17. Cvetkovic, V., Carstens, C., Selroos, J.-O., and Destouni, G.: Water and solute transport along hydrological pathways, Water Resour. Res., 48, W06537, doi:10.1029/2011wr011367, 2012.
18. Dahlke, H. E., Lyon, S. W., Stedinger, J. R., Rosqvist, G., and Jans-son, P.: Contrasting trends in floods for two sub-arctic catchments in northern Sweden-does glacier presence matter?, Hy-drol. Earth Syst. Sci., 16, 2123-2141, doi:10.5194/hess-16-2123-2012, 2012.
19. Darmody, R. G., Thorn, C. E., Dixon, J. C., and Schlyter, P.: Soils and landscapes of Karkevagge, Swedish Lapland, Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J., 64, 1455-1466, 2000.
20. Darracq, A., Destouni, G., Persson, K., Prieto, C., and Jarsjo, J.: Quantification of advective solute travel times and mass transport through hydrological catchments, Environ Fluid Mech., 10, 103-120, 2010.
21. Destouni, G. and Graham, W. D.: Solute transport through an integrated heterogeneous soil-groundwater system, Water Resour. Res., 31, 1935-1944, doi:10.1029/95WR01330, 1995. (Pubitemid 26445852)
22. Destouni, G. and Cvetkovic, V.: Field scale mass arrival of sorptive solute into the groundwater, Water Resour. Res., 27, 1315-1325, doi:10.1029/91WR00182, 1991.
23. Destouni, G., Persson, K., Prieto, C., and Jarsjo, J.: General quantification of catchment-scale nutrient and pollutant transport through the subsurface to surface and coastal waters, Environ. Sci. Technol., 44, 2048-2055, 2010.
24. Dixon, J. C., Thorn, C. E., and Darmody, R. G.: Spatial Scale and Chemical Weathering in Karkevagge: Influences on Landscape Evolution, Z. Geomorph., 52, 27-49, doi:10.1127/0372-8854/2008/0052S1-0027, 2008.
25. Durbin, J. and Watson, G. S.: Testing for serial correlation in least squares regression, I, Biometrika, 37, 409-428, 1950.
26. Durbin, J. and Watson, G. S.: Testing for serial correlation in least squares regression, II, Biometrika, 38, 159-178, 1951.
27. Durbin, J. and Watson, G. S.: Testing for serial correlation in least squares regression, III, Biometrika, 58, 1-19, 1971.
28. Eriksson, N. and Destouni, G.: Combined effects of dissolution kinetics, secondary mineral precipitation, and preferential flow on copper leaching from mining waste rock, Water Resour. Res., 33, 471-483, 1997.
29. Frampton, A., Painter, S., Lyon, S. W., and Destouni, G.: Non-isothermal, three-phase simulations of near-surface flows in a model permafrost system under seasonal variability and climate change, J. Hydrol., 403, 352-359, 2011.
30. Fung, I. Y., Doney, S. C., Lindsay, K., and John, J.: Evolution of carbon sinks in a changing climate, P. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 102, 11201-11206, 2005. (Pubitemid 41153798)
31. 13C-DIC in subarctic streams in northern Sweden, Global Biogeochem. Cy., 27, 176-186, doi:10.1002/gbc.20024, 2013.
32. Godsey, S. E., Kirchner, J. W., and Clow, D. W.: Concentration-discharge relationships reflect chemostatic characteristics of US catchments, Hydrol. Process., 23, 1844-1864, 2009.
33. Harden, J. W., Sharpe, J. M. Parton, W. J., Ojima, D. S., Fries, T. L., Huntington, T. G., Dabney, S. M., Dynamic replacement and loss of soil carbon on eroding cropland, Global Biogeochem. Cy., 13, 885-901, doi:10.1029/ 1999GB900061, 1999. (Pubitemid 34004340)
34. Hobbie, S. E., Schimel, J. P., Trumbore, S. E., and Randerson, J. R.: Controls over carbon storage and turnover in high-latitude soils, Change Biol., 6, 196-210, 2000. (Pubitemid 32978785)
35. Jawitz, J. W. and Mitchell, J.: Temporal inequality if catchment discharge and solute export, Water Resour. Res., 47, W00J14, doi:10.1029/2010WR010197, 2011.
36. Johansson, M., Christensen, T. R., Akerman, H. J., and Callaghan, T. V.: What determines the current presence or absence of permafrost in the Tornetrask region, a sub-arctic landscape in Northern Sweden?, Ambio, 35, 190-197, 2006. (Pubitemid 44343260)
37. Kawahigashi, M., Kaiser, K., Rodionov, A., and Guggenberger, G.: Sorption of dissolved organic matter by mineral soils of the Siberian forest tundra, Global Change Biol., 12, 1868-1877, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2006.01203.x, 2006. (Pubitemid 44389030)
38. Kling, G. W., Kipphut, G. W., and Miller, M. C.: Arctic Lakes and Streams as Gas Conduits to the Atmosphere: Implications for Tundra Carbon Budgets, Science, 251, 298-301, 1991. (Pubitemid 21916877)
39. Kneisel, C.: Frozen ground conditions in a subarctic mountain environment, Northern Sweden, Geomorphology, 118, 80-92, 2010.
40. Kulling, O. and Geijer, P.: Sveriges geologiska undersökning. The Caledonian mountain chain in the Tornetrask-Ofoten area, northern, Scandinavia; the Kiruna iron ore field, Swedish Lapland: guide to excursions nos. A 25 and C 20, Geological Survey of Sweden, 1960.
41. Lindgren, G. A., Destouni, G., and Miller, A. V.: Solute transport through the integrated groundwater-stream system of a catchment, Water Resour. Res., 40, W03511, doi:10.1029/2003wr002765, 2004.
42. Lyon, S. W., Destouni, G., Giesler, R., Humborg, C., Mörth, M., Seibert, J., Karlsson, J., and Troch, P. A.: Estimation of permafrost thawing rates in a sub-arctic catchment using recession flow analysis, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 13, 595-604, doi:10.5194/hess-13-595-2009, 2009.
43. Lyon, S. W., Mörth, M., Humborg, C., Giesler, R., and Destouni, G.: The relationship between subsurface hydrology and dissolved carbon fluxes for a sub-arctic catchment, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 14, 941-950, doi:10.5194/hess-14-941-2010, 2010.
44. Lyon, S. W., Grabs, T., Laudon, H., Bishop, K. H., and Seibert, J.: Variability of groundwater levels and total organic carbon in the riparian zone of a boreal catchment, J. Geophys. Res., 116, G01020, doi:10.1029/2010JG001452, 2011.
45. MacLean, R., Oswood, M. W., Irons, J. G., and McDowell, W. H.: The effect of permafrost on stream biogeochemistry: A case study of two streams in the Alaskan (USA) Taiga, Biogeochemistry, 47, 239-267, 1999. (Pubitemid 29478258)
46. McNamara, J. P., Kane, D. L., Hobbie, J. E., and Kling, G. W.: Hy-drologic and biogeochemical controls on the spatial and temporal patterns of nitrogen and phosphorus in the Kuparuk River, arctic Alaska, Hydrol. Process., 22, 3294-3309, 2008.
47. Olefeldt, D., Roulet, N., Giesler, R., Persson, A.: Total waterbourne carbon export and DOC composition from ten nested subarctic catchements- importance of peatland cover, groundwater influence, and inter-annual variability of precipitation patterns, Hy-drol. Process., 27, 2280-2294, doi:10.1002/hyp.9358, 2012.
48. Persson, K., Jarsjö, J., and Destouni, G.: Diffuse hydrological mass transport through catchments: scenario analysis of coupled physical and biogeochemical uncertainty effects, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 15, 3195-3206, doi:10.5194/hess-15-3195-2011, 2011.
49. Petrone, K. C., Jones, J. B., Hinzman, L. D., and Boone, R. D.: Seasonal export of carbon, nitrogen, and major solutes from Alaskan catchments with discontinuous permafrost, J. Geophys. Res., 111, G02020, doi:10.1029/ 2005jg000055, 2006. (Pubitemid 47489882)
50. Rafstedt, T., Andersson, L., and Sydow, U. V.: Fjällens vegetation. Norrbottens län: en översikt av Norrbottenfjällens vegetation baserad på vegetationskartering och naturvärdering, Norrbottens county: a survey on the basis of vegetation mapping and assessment of natural values, Rapporter/Statens naturvårdsverk, 0347-8173, Statens naturvårdsverk, Solna, 1985.
51. Ridefelt, H., Etzelmüller, B., Boelhouwers, J., and Jonasson, C.: Statistic-empirical modelling of mountain permafrost distribution in the Abisko region, sub-Arctic northern Sweden, Norsk. Geogr. Tidsskr., 62, 278-289, 2008.
52. Schuur, E. A. G., Bockheim, J., Canadell, J. G., Euskirchen, E., Field, C. B., Goryachkin, S. V., Hagemann, S., Kuhry, P., Lafleur, P. M., Lee, H., Mazhitova, G., Nelson, F. E., Rinke, A., Romanovsky, V. E., Shiklomanov, N., Tarnocai, C., Venevsky, S., Vogel, J. G., and Zimov, S. A.: Vulnerability of permafrost carbon to climate change: implications for the global carbon cycle, Bioscience, 58, 701-714, 2008.
53. Seibert, J., Grabs, T., Köhler, S., Laudon, H., Winterdahl, M., and Bishop, K.: Linking soil-and stream-water chemistry based on a Riparian Flow-Concentration Integration Model, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 13, 2287-2297, doi:10.5194/hess-13-2287-2009, 2009.
54. Sjogersten, S. and Wookey, P. A.: Decomposition of mountain birch leaf litter at the forest-tundra ecotone in the Fennoscan-dian mountains in relation to climate and soil conditions, Plant Soil, 262, 215-227, doi:10.1023/B:PLSO. 0000037044.63113.fe, 2004. (Pubitemid 39123066)
55. Sjöberg, Y., Frampton, A., and Lyon, S. W.: Using streamflow characteristics to explore permafrost thawing in Northern Swedish catchments, Hydrogeol. J., 21, 121-131, doi:10.1007/s10040-012-0932-5, 2013.
56. Smedberg, E., Mörth, C.-M., Swaney, D. P., and Humborg, C.: Modeling hydrology and silicon-carbon interactions in taiga and tundra biomes from a landscape perspective: implications for global warming feedbacks, Global Biogeochem. Cy., 20, GB2014, doi:10.1029/2005GB002567, 2006. (Pubitemid 44755537)
57. Smedberg, E., Humborg, C., Jakobsson, M., and Mörth, C.-M.: Landscape elements and river chemistry as affected by river regulation-a 3-D perspective, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 13, 1597-1606, doi:10.5194/hess-13-1597- 2009, 2009.
58. Tank, S. E., Raymond, P. A., Striegl, R. G., McClelland, J. W., Holmes, R. M., Fiske, G. J., and Peterson, B. J.: A land-to-ocean perspective on the magnitude, source and implication of DIC flux from major Arctic rivers to the Arctic Ocean, Global Bio-geochem. Cy., 26, GB4018, doi:10.1029/2011GB004192, 2012.
59. Tranvik, L. J., Downing, J. A., Cotner, J. B., Loiselle, S. A., Striegl, R. G., Ballatore, T. J., Dillon, P., Finlay, K., Fortino, K., and Knoll, L. B.: Lakes and reservoirs as regulators of carbon cycling and climate, Limnol. Oceanogr., 54, 2298-2314, 2009.
60. Turner, R. E. and Rabalais, N. N.: Linking Landscape and Water Quality in the Mississippi River Basin for 200 Years, BioScience, 53, 563-572, doi:10.1641/0006-3568(2003)053[0563:LLAWQI]2.0.CO;2, 2003. (Pubitemid 36684879)
61. Winterdahl, M., Futter, M., Kohler, S., Laudon, H., Seibert, J., and Bishop, K.: Riparian soil temperature modification of the relationship between flow and dissolved organic carbon concentration in a boreal stream, Water Resour. Res., 47, G04S54, doi:10.1029/2006jg000353, 2011.