Mountain Karst Aquifers Characterization
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Hydrogeology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2023) | Viewed by 419
Special Issue Editors
Interests: isotope hydrology; alpine hydrogeology; aquifer recharge; nature-based solutions; climate change
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Interests: hydrogeology; groundwater; karst aquifer; caves; speleogenesis; hydrogeochemistry; recharge
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Interests: high-mountain hydrogeology; groundwater; karst aquifer; slope aquifer; recharge channels; Nature-based solutions
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is addressed to mountain karst aquifers. They are strategic freshwater reservoirs for sustaining downstream dependent ecosystems, many of which are found in semi-arid areas. Overall, 70% of all carbonate rock surface exposures occur in hills and mountainous areas, and approximately 25% of the world’s population depends directly or indirectly on water supply from karst aquifers. Given their relevance, it is essential to characterize the hydrological behavior of such mountain karst aquifers, and to protect them to avoid undesirable problems in stored water resources, especially when these karst aquifers are unconfined. This facilitates the rapid and widespread incorporation and transport of pollutants into groundwater through focused recharge flowing through the most conductive karst features. Such a threatening process could even be highlighted by climate change. The warming trends so far and their projected evolution will reduce solid atmospheric precipitation and thus the duration of snow cover in mountainous areas. This will drive the dominant aquifer recharge process to migrate from a spatially diffuse to a focused one, thus modifying the aquifer hydrodynamic response while exposing the aquifer to eventual surface contamination by anthropogenic activities for a longer time.
This Special Issue welcomes new insights, research innovations and review papers on mountain karst aquifers. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Numerical simulation of groundwater flow.
- Geological, hydrological and hydrogeochemical investigations of karst systems.
- Advances in isotopic investigations of karst systems.
- Time-series analysis of observed karst hydroclimatic variables.
- Karst groundwater vulnerability assessment and remediation.
- Climate change impact assessment in karst aquifers.
- Management and mitigation of karst groundwater resources.
- High-mountain karst geomorphology
- Speleology and high-mountain karst.
Dr. Jorge Jódar Bermúdez
Dr. Juan José Durán
Dr. Sergio Martos Rosillo
Dr. Luis Javier Lambán
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- karst aquifer
- recharge
- hydrogeochemistry
- modelling
- transit time
- environmental tracers
- cave exploration
- contamination
- climate change
- water resources
