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New insights on water storage dynamics in a mountainous catchment from superconducting gravimetry

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Assessing the spatial and temporal heterogeneity in subsurface water storage has strong societal and environmental implications, as it is key to assess the water availability for the ecosystem and society. This challenge is especially significant in mountainous areas, where the local population totally depends on springwater as a freshwater resource, while water storage dynamics is complex to evaluate because it exhibits spatiotemporal heterogeneities on all scales as a result of the topography. In this study, we compare the water balance of a headwater granitic catchment (CWB) with water storage changes assessed from in situ continuous gravity monitoring using an iGrav superconducting gravimeter (SG WSC) located at the summit of the catchment. We show that SG WSC and CWB exhibit a similar annual cycle, although they deviate in the months following winter peak flow events. We investigate the reasons for these discrepancies using a tank model adjusted to the SG signal. This shows that during these events, the effective discharge in the SG footprint area is much lower than the catchment streamflow. We attribute this difference in the drainage term to a lower contribution of the upper part of the catchment to the generation of peak flow, compared to the lower part.
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hal-03395252 , version 1 (22-10-2021)

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Q Chaffaut, J Hinderer, F Masson, D Viville, S Pasquet, et al.. New insights on water storage dynamics in a mountainous catchment from superconducting gravimetry. Geophysical Journal International, 2021, 228, pp.432 - 446. ⟨10.1093/gji/ggab328⟩. ⟨hal-03395252⟩
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