Arctic Spring Systems Driven by Permafrost Aggradation
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Arctic Spring Systems Driven by Permafrost Aggradation. / Hornum, Mikkel Toft; Bense, Victor; van der Ploeg, Martine; Kroon, Aart; Sjöberg, Ylva.
I: Geophysical Research Letters, Bind 50, Nr. 17, e2023GL104719, 2023.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Arctic Spring Systems Driven by Permafrost Aggradation
AU - Hornum, Mikkel Toft
AU - Bense, Victor
AU - van der Ploeg, Martine
AU - Kroon, Aart
AU - Sjöberg, Ylva
N1 - CENPERMOA[2023] Publisher Copyright: © 2023. The Authors.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Groundwater springs in permafrost regions provide pathways for solutes and dissolved gases to escape from sub-permafrost groundwater systems, which otherwise are completely isolated from the surface environment and atmosphere. Yet, fundamental questions as to the mechanisms driving groundwater flow to the surface remain unsolved. In this study, basal permafrost aggradation is explored as a mechanism for generating groundwater flow and driving groundwater spring systems. We employ process-based numerical modeling to test the hypothesis of permafrost-aggradation-driven spring systems in a range of environmental settings. The model results show that permafrost aggradation can generate spring flow on a multi-millennial timescale and with discharge rates up to a couple of liters per second. Permafrost aggradation deserves attention as a groundwater flow driving mechanism in areas of recent glacio-isostatic uplift and glacial retreat.
AB - Groundwater springs in permafrost regions provide pathways for solutes and dissolved gases to escape from sub-permafrost groundwater systems, which otherwise are completely isolated from the surface environment and atmosphere. Yet, fundamental questions as to the mechanisms driving groundwater flow to the surface remain unsolved. In this study, basal permafrost aggradation is explored as a mechanism for generating groundwater flow and driving groundwater spring systems. We employ process-based numerical modeling to test the hypothesis of permafrost-aggradation-driven spring systems in a range of environmental settings. The model results show that permafrost aggradation can generate spring flow on a multi-millennial timescale and with discharge rates up to a couple of liters per second. Permafrost aggradation deserves attention as a groundwater flow driving mechanism in areas of recent glacio-isostatic uplift and glacial retreat.
KW - Arctic hydrology
KW - cryohydrological modeling
KW - groundwater springs
KW - permafrost
KW - pingo springs
KW - taliks
U2 - 10.1029/2023GL104719
DO - 10.1029/2023GL104719
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85170071460
VL - 50
JO - Geophysical Research Letters
JF - Geophysical Research Letters
SN - 0094-8276
IS - 17
M1 - e2023GL104719
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ID: 369126770