Temporal variations and scaling of streamflow and baseflow and their nitrate-nitrogen concentrations and loads
Advances in Water Resources
By: Y.-K. Zhang and K. Schilling
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Abstract
The patterns of temporal variations of precipitation (P), streamflow (SF) and baseflow (BF) as well as their nitrate-nitrogen (nitrate) concentrations (C) and loads (L) from a long-term record (28 years) in the Raccoon River, Iowa, were analyzed using variogram and spectral analyses. The daily P is random but scaling may exist in the daily SF and BF with a possible break point in the scaling at about 18 days and 45 days, respectively. The nitrate concentrations and loads are shown to have a half-year cycle while daily P, SF, and BF have a one-year cycle. Furthermore, there may be a low-frequency cycle of 6-8 years in C. The power spectra of C and L in both SF and BF exhibit fractal 1/f scaling with two characteristic frequencies of half-year and one-year, and are fitted well with the spectrum of the gamma distribution. The nitrate input to SF and BF at the Raccoon watershed seems likely to be a white noise process superimposed on another process with a half-year and one-year cycle. ?? 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Zhang, Y., and Schilling, K., 2005, Temporal variations and scaling of streamflow and baseflow and their nitrate-nitrogen concentrations and loads: Advances in Water Resources, v. 28, no. 7, p. 701-710, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2004.12.014.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Temporal variations and scaling of streamflow and baseflow and their nitrate-nitrogen concentrations and loads |
| Series title | Advances in Water Resources |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.advwatres.2004.12.014 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Year Published | 2005 |
| Language | English |
| Larger Work Type | Article |
| Larger Work Subtype | Journal Article |
| Larger Work Title | Advances in Water Resources |
| First page | 701 |
| Last page | 710 |