Mass balance and spectral analysis applied to Karst hydrologie networks

M. C. Brown

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Publication Date

6-1-1973

Publication Title

Water Resources Research

Volume Number

9

Issue Number

3

Abstract

Underground karst drainage systems can be studied by the input‐output relations of rivers that flow through them. First, tracers enable the quantity of water at a sink that flows to a specific spring, and the fraction of a given spring derived from a sink, to be calculated. Second, when these methods are not applicable, cross‐covariance and cross‐spectral transfer function analysis can be used to examine input‐output stage records. These give information about the vadose and/or phreatic nature of the system. An inaccessible karst drainage system in western Alberta has a tracer flow‐through time of +80 to +130 hours and a positively skewed cross covariance of +70 to +124 hours; therefore the cave is not completely water filled. Additional unknown inputs are substantiated by a negatively peaking cross covariance.

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Article

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.1029/WR009i003p00749

Language

English

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