A hydrologic model demonstrates nitrous oxide emissions depend on streambed morphology

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 5484-5491

  Marzadri, A ^a,b   Tonina, D ^b   Bellin, A ^a   Tank, J L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

hyporheic zone; nitrous oxide emissions; stream morphology

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPLEX NETWORKS; DENITRIFICATION; MORPHOLOGY; NITROGEN; RIVERS; NITROGEN OXIDES;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS; BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROCESS; HYPORHEIC ZONE; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; NITROUS OXIDE EMISSIONS; STREAM MORPHOLOGY; STREAMBED SEDIMENTS; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; INORGANIC NITROGEN;

NITROGEN OXIDES; CLIMATE CHANGE;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CATCHMENT; DATA SET; DENITRIFICATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; NITROUS OXIDE; STREAM BED; UPSCALING;

EID: 84905307879     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL060732     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. Alexander, R.B., R.A. Smith, and, G.E. Schwarz, (2000), Effect of stream channel on the delivery of nitrogen to the Gulf of Mexico, Nature, 403, 758-761.
2. Beaulieu, J.J., C.P. Arango, S.K. Hamilton, and, J.L. Tank, (2008), The production and emission of nitrous oxide from headwater in the Midwestern United States, Global Change Biol., 14, 878-894.
3. Beaulieu, J.J., C.P. Arango, and, J.L. Tank, (2009), The effects of season and agriculture on nitrous oxide production in headwater streams, J. Environ. Qual., 38, 637-646.
4. Beaulieu, J. J., et al. (2011), Nitrous oxide emission from denitrification in stream and river networks, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 108 (1), 214-219.
5. Boano, F., R. Revelli, and, L. Ridolfi, (2007), Bedform induced hyporheic exchange with unsteady flows, Adv. Water Resour., 30 (1), 148-156.
6. Cardenas, M.B., J.L. Wilson, and, V.A. Zlotnik, (2004), Impact of heterogeneity, bed forms, and stream curvature on subchannel hyporheic exchange, Water Resour. Res., 40, W08307, doi: 10.1029/2004WR003008.
7. Elliott, A.H., and, N.H. Brooks, (1997), Transfer of nonsorbing solutes to a streambed with bedforms: Theory, Water Resour. Res., 33, 123-136.
8. Endreny, T.A., L. Lautz, and, D. Spiegel, (2011), Hyporheic flow path response to hydraulic jumps at river steps: Hydrostatic model simulations, Water Resour. Res., 47, W02518, doi: 10.1029/2010WR010014.
9. Galloway, J.N., J.D. Aber, J.W. Erisman, S.P. Seitzinger, R.W. Howarth, E.B. Cowling, and, B.J. Cosby, (2003), The nitrogen cascade, BioScience, 53 (4), 341-356.
10. Galloway, J. N., et al. (2004), Nitrogen cycles: Past, present, and future, Biogeochemistry, 70, 153-226.
11. 2O) in the Seine river and basin: Observations and budgets, Agric. Ecosyst. Environ., 133, 223-233.
12. Gomez, J.D., J.L. Wilson, and, M.B. Cardenas, (2012), Residence time distributions in sinuosity-driven hyporheic zones and their biogeochemical effects, Water Resour. Res., 48, W09533, doi: 10.1029/2012WR012180.
13. Haggerty, R., S.M. Wondzell, and, M.A. Johnson, (2002), Power-law residence time distribution in the hyporheic zone of a 2nd-order mountain stream, Geophys. Res. Lett., 29 (13), 1640, doi: 10.1029/2002GL014743.
14. Harvey, J.W., J.K. Böhlke, M.A. Voytek, D. Scott, and, C.R. Tobias, (2013), Hyporheic zone denitrification: Controls on effective reaction depth and contribution to whole-stream mass balance, Water Resour. Res., 49, 6298-6316, doi: 10.1002/wrcr.20492.
15. Hassan, M.A., D. Tonina, R.D. Beckie, and, M. Kinnear, (2014), The effects of discharge and slope on hyporheic flow in step-pool morphologies, Hydrol. Processes, doi: 10.1002/hyp.10155.
16. Hester, E.T., and, W.A. Doyle, (2008), In-stream geomorphic structures as drivers of hyporheic exchange, Water Resour. Res., 44, W03417, doi: 10.1029/2006WR005810.
17. Ikeda, S., (1984), Prediction of alternate bar wavelength and height, J. Hydraul. Eng., 110 (4), 371-386.
18. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2007), Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, U. K.
19. 2O budget: A retrospective analysis 1500-1994, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 13 (1), 1-8.
20. Kroeze, K., and, S. Seitzinger, (1998), Nitrogen inputs to rivers, estuaries, continental shelves and related nitrous oxide emissions in 1990 and 2050: A global model, Nutr. Cycling Agroecosyst., 52, 195-212.
21. Marion, A., M. Bellinello, I. Guymer, and, A.I. Packman, (2002), Effect of bed form geometry on the penetration of nonreactive solutes into a streambed, Water Resour. Res., 38 (10), 1209, doi: 10.1029/2001WR000264.
22. Marzadri, A., D. Tonina, A. Bellin, G. Vignoli, and, M. Tubino, (2010), Semi-analytical analysis of hyporheic flow induced by alternate bars, Water Resour. Res., 46, W07531, doi: 10.1029/2009WR008285.
23. Marzadri, A., D. Tonina, and, A. Bellin, (2011), A semianalytical three-dimensional process-based model for hyporheic nitrogen dynamics in gravel bed rivers, Water Resour. Res., 47, W11518, doi: 10.1029/2011WR010583.
24. Marzadri, A., D. Tonina, and, A. Bellin, (2012), Morphodynamic controls on redox conditions and on nitrogen dynamics within the hyporheic zone: Application to gravel bed rivers with alternate-bar morphology, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 117, G00N10, doi: 10.1029/2012JG001966.
25. Montgomery, D.R., and, J.M. Buffington, (1997), Channel-reach morphology in mountain drainage basins, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 109 (5), 596-611.
26. Mulholland, P. J., et al. (2002), Can uptake length in streams be determined by nutrient addition experiments? Results from an interbiome comparison study, J. N. Am. Benthol. Soc., 21 (4), 544-560.
27. Mulholland, P. J., et al. (2008), Stream denitrification across biomes and its response to anthropogenic nitrate loading, Nature, 452, 202-206.
28. 15N addition experiments: Nitrification, Limnol. Oceanogr., 54 (3), 666-680.
29. Packman, A.I., and, K.E. Bencala, (2000), Modeling surface-subsurface hydrological interactions, in Streams and Ground Waters, edited by, J.B. Jones, and, P.J. Mulholland, pp. 45-80, Academic Press, San Diego, Calif.
30. Peterson, B., et al. (2001), Control of nitrogen export from watershed by headwater streams, Nature, 292, 86-89.
31. Rinaldo, A., I. Rodriguez-Iturbe, R. Rigon, E. Ijjasz-Vasquez, and, R.L. Bras, (1993), Self-organized fractal river networks, Phys. Rev. Lett., 70 (6), 822-825.
32. Rosamond, M.S., S.J. Thuss, and, S.L. Schiff, (2012), Dependence on riverine nitrous oxide emissions on dissolved oxygen levels, Nat. Geosci., 5, 715-718.
33. Salarashayeri, A.F., and, M. Siosemarde, (2012), Prediction of soil hydraulic conductivity from particle-size distribution, World Acad. Sci. Eng. Technol., 61, 454-458.
34. Shen, H.V., H.M. Fehlman, and, C. Mendoza, (1990), Bed form resistances in open channel flows, J. Hydraul. Eng., 116 (6), 799-815.
35. Stonedahl, S.H., J.W. Harvey, A. Wörman, M. Salehin, and, A.I. Packman, (2010), A multiscale model for integrating hyporheic exchange from ripples to meanders, Water Resour. Res., 46, W12539, doi: 10.1029/2009WR008865.
36. Syakila, A., and, C. Kroeze, (2012), The global nitrous oxide budget revisited, Greenhouse Gas Meas. Manage., 1 (1), 17-26.
37. Tonina, D., and, J.M. Buffington, (2009a), Hyporheic exchange in mountain rivers I: Mechanics and environmental effects, Geography Compass, 3 (3), 1063-1086.
38. Tonina, D., and, J.M. Buffington, (2009b), A three-dimensional model for analyzing the effects of salmon redds on hyporheic exchange and egg pocket habitat, Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci., 66, 2157-2173.
39. Vitousek, P.M., J.D. Aber, R.W. Howarth, G.E. Likens, P.A. Matson, D.W. Schindler, W.H. Schlesinger, and, D.G. Tilman, (1997), Human alterations of the global nitrogen cycle: Sources and consequences, Ecol. Appl., 7 (3), 737-750.
40. Weiss, R.F., and, B.A. Price, (1980), Nitrous oxide solubility in water and seawater, Mar. Chem., 8, 347-359.
41. Yalin, M.S., (1964), Geometrical properties of sand waves, J. Hydraul. Div.-ASCE, 90 (5), 105-119.
42. Zarnetske, J.P., R. Haggerty, S.M. Wondzell, and, M.A. Baker, (2011), Dynamics of nitrate production and removal as a function of residence time in the hyporheic zone, J. Geophys. Res., 116, G01025, doi: 10.1029/2010JG001356.
43. Zarnetske, J.P., R. Haggerty, S.M. Wondzell, V.A. Bokil, and, R. González-Pinzõn, (2012), Coupled transport and reaction kinetics control on the nitrate sources-sink function of hyporheic zones, Water Resour. Res., 48 (11), W11508, doi: 10.1029/2012WR011894.