Hybrid Gravimetry to Map Water Storage Dynamics in a Mountain Catchment - Archive ouverte HAL
Article Dans Une Revue Frontiers in Water Année : 2022

Hybrid Gravimetry to Map Water Storage Dynamics in a Mountain Catchment

Nolwenn Lesparre
Jacques Hinderer
  • Fonction : Auteur
  • PersonId : 1076346
Daniel Viville
  • Fonction : Auteur
  • PersonId : 1076145
  • IdRef : 264169883
G. Ferhat
Solenn Cotel
  • Fonction : Auteur
  • PersonId : 1055586

Résumé

In mountain areas, both the ecosystem and the local population highly depend on water availability. However, water storage dynamics in mountains is challenging to assess because it is highly variable both in time and space. This calls for innovative observation methods that can tackle such measurement challenge. Among them, gravimetry is particularly well-suited as it is directly sensitive–in the sense it does not require any petrophysical relationship–to temporal changes in water content occurring at surface or underground at an intermediate spatial scale (i.e., in a radius of 100 m). To provide constrains on water storage changes in a small headwater catchment (Strengbach catchment, France), we implemented a hybrid gravity approach combining in-situ precise continuous gravity monitoring using a superconducting gravimeter, with relative time-lapse gravity made with a portable Scintrex CG5 gravimeter over a network of 16 stations. This paper presents the resulting spatio-temporal changes in gravity and discusses them in terms of spatial heterogeneities of water storage. We interpret the spatio-temporal changes in gravity by means of: (i) a topography model which assumes spatially homogeneous water storage changes within the catchment, (ii) the topographic wetness index, and (iii) for the first time to our knowledge in a mountain context, by means of a physically based distributed hydrological model. This study therefore demonstrates the ability of hybrid gravimetry to assess the water storage dynamics in a mountain hydrosystem and shows that it provides observations not presumed by the applied physically based distributed hydrological model.
Fichier principal
Vignette du fichier
frwa-03-715298.pdf (17.01 Mo) Télécharger le fichier
Origine Fichiers éditeurs autorisés sur une archive ouverte

Dates et versions

hal-03862915 , version 1 (21-11-2022)

Identifiants

Citer

Quentin Chaffaut, Nolwenn Lesparre, Frédéric Masson, Jacques Hinderer, Daniel Viville, et al.. Hybrid Gravimetry to Map Water Storage Dynamics in a Mountain Catchment. Frontiers in Water, 2022, 3, ⟨10.3389/frwa.2021.715298⟩. ⟨hal-03862915⟩
49 Consultations
9 Téléchargements

Altmetric

Partager

More