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Analysis of the groundwater flow system in a high-altitude headwater region under rapid climate warming: Lhasa River Basin, Tibetan Plateau

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DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrh.2021.100871

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Lhasa River Basin; Tibetan Plateau; Groundwater flow; Climate change; Numerical modeling

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  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [91747204]
  2. Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Soil and Groundwater Pollution Control [2017B030301012]
  3. Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences [XDA20060402]
  4. High-level Special Funding of the Southern University of Science and Technology [G02296302, G02296402]
  5. AXA Research Fund

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The study focused on the hydrological processes in the Lhasa River Basin on the Tibetan Plateau in response to climate warming. Groundwater recharge is influenced by precipitation and glacier meltwater, with the baseflow showing an increasing trend under different future climate change scenarios. The study highlights the importance of understanding groundwater dynamics in alpine headwater regions for water resource management in a changing climate.
Study region: Lhasa River Basin (LRB) on the Tibetan Plateau, China. Study focus: Tibetan Plateau has been undergoing climate warming in the past five decades. The hydrological processes in the LRB, a representative alpine headwater region basin on the Tibetan Plateau, are changing in response to climate warming. However, characteristics of groundwater recharge and discharge and response of the groundwater flow system to future climate change in this region remain unclear. This study constructed a three-dimensional numerical model to simulate the groundwater flow variations under different future climate change scenarios. New hydrological insights for the region: Approximately 13.6 % (similar to 71.6 mm/yr) of annual precipitation recharges groundwater. Glacier meltwater recharge is 10 % of the total groundwater recharge across the entire LRB, and this proportion increases to 34.8 % in the Yangbajing subbasin. More than 80 % of the groundwater circulates within 0 similar to 0.3 km below ground surface. The groundwater flow system is dominated by travel times between 10-100 years and flow path distances less than 10 km. The baseflow shows an increasing trend in response to future climate change, and the increasing trends range from 0.07 to 0.21 m3/s per year under different future climate change scenarios. The baseflow variation indicates that wet year will become wetter and dry year will become drier in the future.

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