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DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2019.05.031
WOS记录号: WOS:000474502200009
论文题名:
Glacier melt runoff controls bedload transport in Alpine catchments
作者: Comiti, F.1; Mao, L.2,3; Penna, D.4; Dell'; Agnese, A.1; Engel, M.1; Rathburn, S.5; Cavalli, M.6
通讯作者: Comiti, F.
刊名: EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS
ISSN: 0012-821X
EISSN: 1385-013X
出版年: 2019
卷: 520, 页码:77-86
语种: 英语
英文关键词: sediment transport ; stable water isotopes ; glacier retreat ; global warming
WOS关键词: BED-LOAD TRANSPORT ; SUBGLACIAL DRAINAGE ; CLIMATE-CHANGE ; RIVER ; VARIABILITY ; SWITZERLAND ; CALIBRATION ; DELTA-O-18 ; DELTA-H-2 ; GRAVEL
WOS学科分类: Geochemistry & Geophysics
WOS研究方向: Geochemistry & Geophysics
英文摘要:

Research on factors affecting sediment regime in glacierized catchments under warming climates is still scarce despite its societal relevance. In particular, coarse bedload transport has never been quantitatively related to water runoff origin (snowmelt vs glacier melt), which provides important information on the role of different sediment sources (glaciers vs hillslopes and channel bed). Drawing on data from multiple spatial and temporal scales in a paradigmatic Alpine glacierized catchment, we show that glacier melt flows play a key role in coarse sediment transport dynamics. Bedload concentration measured during glacier melt flows is up to 6 orders of magnitude larger than during snowmelt. At the catchment scale and within the channel, however, minimal aggradation and degradation was detected over almost a decade. In addition, sedimentation rates at a hydropower weir, inferred from flushing frequency during the last four decades, are tightly associated to summer air temperature and not to precipitation trends, and most of sediment export occurred in July-August. However, sediment flushing frequency has been decreasing since the late 1990s despite very warm summers in the following decades. Collectively, these findings indicate that sediment is dominantly sourced from within glacier-covered areas and that transport rates are thus dictated by seasonal and multi-annual glacial dynamics. As glacier melt flows decrease due to ice mass loss, our results suggest that, for similar basins, a progressive shift from supply-limited (driven by glacier activity) to transport-limited (during rainfall-induced events) sediment transport will occur, disrupting the current near-equilibrium channel conditions. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.


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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/145504
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作者单位: 1.Free Univ Bozen Bolzano, Fac Sci & Technol, Piazza Univ 5, I-39100 Bolzano, Italy
2.Univ Lincoln, Sch Geog, Lincoln LN6 7TS, England
3.Pontificia Univ Catolica Chile, Inst Geog, Santiago, Chile
4.Univ Florence, Dept Agr Food Environm & Forestry, Via S Bonaventura 13, I-50145 Florence, Italy
5.Colorado State Univ, Dept Geosci, Ft Collins, CO 80523 USA
6.CNR, Res Inst Geohydrol Protect IRPI, Corso Stati Uniti 4, I-35127 Padua, Italy

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Comiti, F.,Mao, L.,Penna, D.,et al. Glacier melt runoff controls bedload transport in Alpine catchments[J]. EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS,2019-01-01,520:77-86
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