3D stochastic modeling of flow and solute transport in karst vadose zone

Zeqiraj, Dulian

doi:10.1016/j.cscee.2022.100217

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“…manuscript submitted to Review of Geophysics Nonetheless, epikarst is a karst critical zone whereby contaminant mixing, storage, and transport characteristics are largely controlled (e.g., Dal Soglio et al, 2020;Flynn & Sinreich, 2010;Li et al, 2017;Perrin et al, 2003b;Zhang et al, 2017, among many others). Furthermore, as the epikarst forms the reactive and biogeochemical processes (i.e., sorption, microbial activities, and oxidation), it significantly modifies the (initial) composition of the contaminants released from the ground surface before reaching the saturated groundwater table (Druhan et al, 2021;Dubois et al, 2014;Oster et al, 2021;Zeqiraj, 2022) while predominantly controlling the karst system's (biogeo)chemical functioning (Anna-Neva et al, 2021;Laincz & Hays, 2014;Panno et al, 2001). For these reasons, better understanding of epikarst transport dynamics is a fundamental need to protect and manage karst water quality and dependent ecosystem functioning.…”

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Karst water resources in a changing world: Review of solute transport modelling approaches

Çallı,

Chiogna,

Bittner

et al. 2024

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Karst water resources are valuable freshwater sources for around 10 % of the world population. Nonetheless, anthropogenic factors and global changes have been seriously deteriorating the karst water quality and dependent ecosystems. Solute transport models are powerful tools to monitor, control, and manage the water quality and dependent ecosystem functioning. By representing and predicting the spatiotemporal behavior of solute migration in karst systems, the transport models enhance our understanding about the karst transport processes, thus enabling us to explore contamination risks and potential outcomes. This paper reviews the current state of knowledge on the modelling of solute transport processes in karst aquifers, thereby unveiling the fundamental challenges underlying a successful karst transport modelling. We discuss to what extent and in what ways we can handle these challenges and derive the key challenges and directions for reliable modelling of transport processes in karst systems in the present context of global changes.

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