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Where and how much water do trees transport? Modelling the impact of spruce and beech stands on soil water fluxes during extreme climatic conditions
Zelíková, Nikol ; Šípek, Václav
Soil moisture links processes that influence the entire hydrological cycle and thus the availability of water resources. One important factor influencing these processes is the presence of vegetation. Research on the interactions between vegetation, its management and the processes affecting soil water fluxes is of particular importance in times of ongoing climate change and land cover changes. However, the complexity of these interactions, further influenced by differences between plant species, makes this research more difficult. Land cover change is also taking place in Czechia, specifically in the replacement of spruce monocultures by beech. Therefore, this study investigates the influence of two types of forest stands, spruce (Picea abies) and beech (Fagus sylvatica), on the soil water regime in the experimental Liz catchment in Bohemian Forest, Czechia. This was performed by (1) evaluating differences in soil moisture based on twenty years of measured data and (2) obtaining the two components of the soil water balance (transpiration and percolation) at two plots (beech and spruce) using a soil water balance model. Analysis of the long-term soil moisture data show slightly lower soil moisture values under the beech stands, which disappear when comparing the annual mean values. Differences are evident when evaluating average soil moisture data with depth, where the topmost layer of the soil profile at the spruce site has on average 6% higher soil water content than beech. At the start of the growing season the soil moisture was initially drier under spruce, due to its earlier start of transpiration. This difference was reduced over the season by the intensive transpiration of beech. The outputs of the balance model indicated a higher rate of actual evapotranspiration of beech and a higher rate of percolation of spruce every year. This effect was more pronounced over the dry years, whereas in years with sufficient rainfall the differences were minimal. Thus, the replacement of spruce trees by beech trees may affect the rate of groundwater recharge.
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Time variabilty of soil hydraulic properties and their impact on soil moisture estimation
Šípek, Václav ; Vlček, Lukáš ; Tesař, Miroslav ; Zelíková, Nikol ; Hnilica, Jan
The study was focused on the temporal variability of saturated hydraulic conductivity in an experimental plot covered by spruce forest and investigated benefits of its incorporation into soil water balance model. The results showed that the higher saturated hydraulic conductivity (33.6-44.8 cm hr-1) was observed in summer period compared to lower values (13.2-22.3 cm hr-1) in the winter period. The use of seasonally variabile saturated hydraulic conductivity improved the efficiency of soil water balance model in terms of lower root mean square error between observed and simulated volumetric soil water content by 33.2 %. The Nash-Sutcliffe coefficient rose from 0.34 to 0.68.
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Runoff from a mainly peat bog basin
Vlček, Lukáš ; Falátková, Kristýna
This research focuses on the basin's hydrological regime, where peatlands make up approximately half of the area. Hydrological processes in the peat bog and the surrounding forest were evaluated using the HBV model. The results show that the peatlands significantly increase the water regime fluctuation of local streams. Moreover, water balance shows a lower cooling effect of tree-less peat bogs than forests on organo-mineral soils. Except for a positive ecological aspect, peatland restoration can have a negative hydrological impact on the surrounding landscape and local streams.
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Hydrology of small basins 2023
Hnilicová, Soňa ; Tesař, Miroslav
The book is a collection of scientific contributions to the Conference "Hydrology of small basins". The conference topics were: 1. Changes in the regime of water resources in small basins; 2. Complex monitoring a and water storage balance in small basins; 3. Hydrological extremes (flash floods, drought); 4. Effect of land use and land cover on water balance; 5. Hydrophobicity and transportation processes in soil; 6. Hydrological modelling und uncertainties; 7. Biogeochemical fluxes in a small watershed and eutrophication of surface waters; 8. Mountainous experimental small basins (deposited precipitation, snow regime, …); 9. New methods, techniques and instrumentation in hydrology and hydroecology.\n
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Amount and differences in snow accumulation in the Šumava region
Procházka, J. ; Šustková, V. ; Tesař, Miroslav
The Šumava Mts. (Bohemian Forest) represents the most extensive mountainous range of the Czech Republic and due to its area and altitude it catches the substantial portion of the winter precipitation in the snow form. Unfortunately, the more continuous information on snow characteristics from the highest and remote regions of the Šumava Mts. has been in effect missing till recently. From this reason the activities focused on the more detailed expeditionary field measurements of the snow depths and snow water equivalent. The space analysis of point snow cover measurements the appropriate tools were used: ArcGIS (ESRI), orographical interpolation, LLR methods and the methods of ClidatDEM used in the Czech Hydrometeolological Institute.
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Changes in the ratio between a new snow depth and seasonal precipitation in mountainous and submontane regions of the Czech Republic
Procházka, J. ; Lipina, P. ; Šustková, V. ; Tesař, Miroslav
Snowfall and snow cover formation is an important aspect of the colder part of the year in the Czech Republic and Central Europe. Snow cover is important from the point of view of climatology, hydrology, ecology and recreation, and therefore economic. In addition to precipitation, the amount of new snow depends mainly on the air temperature. With gradual warming, it can be assumed that with a similar total precipitation, the proportion of precipitation in the form of snow and the ability to form snow cover will decrease. In order to evaluate the mentioned changes, the ratio of the seasonal amount of new snow in cm and total precipitation in mm, Sn/P (cm/mm) was used in this paper. For the analysis, data from the CHMI database for two normal periods 1961–1990 and 1991–2020 were processed for selected mountain and foothill meteorological stations in the Czech Republic. The period from November to April was assessed as a cold part of the year for this purpose, when a new snow cover is more likely to form. The results of the study showed that the Sn/P ratio decreased in the period 1991–2020 compared to the period 1961–1990.
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Possibilities of perfluorinated organic compounds (PFCs) removal in drinking water treatment plants and their occurrence in drinking water sources in the Czech Republic
Čermáková, Lenka ; Fialová, Kateřina ; Prokopová, Michaela ; Semerád, Jaroslav ; Petříček, Radim ; Pivokonská, Lenka ; Cajthaml, Tomáš ; Pivokonský, Martin
This summary research report was implemented within the project TAČR TJ04000212 program to support applied research ZÉTA „Possibilities of perfluorinated organic compounds (PFCs) removal in drinking water treatment plants and their occurrence in drinking water sources in the Czech Republic“. This report is addressed to water treatment plant operators and serves as a basic material for optimizing the coagulation / flocculation and adsorption process in water treatment. The report explains in detail the issue of removal of perfluorinated organic substances (PFCs) in water treatment, especially the process of adsorption in pilot plant conditions. This report will be used as a theoretical basis for the operation of the water treatment plant in Kutná Hora operated by the Water Management Company Vrchlice - Maleč, a. s.
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Report on the hydroledological survey in the Černý Důl, Krkonoše Mts.
Šípek, Václav ; Vlček, Lukáš ; Zelíková, Nikol
The report documents results of hydropedological survey in the Černý Důl, Krkonoše Mts. Two experimental sites were selected based on the requirements of National Park Krkonoše with the aim to determine the effect of bark beetle outbreak on the soil water regime. The report contains description of soil hydraulic properties at two plots (healthy and impacted forest) for several soil horizons which will serve as a basis for hydropedological model.\n
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Experimental validation of granular flow kinetic theory under turbulent flow conditions
Haidl, Jan ; Chára, Zdeněk ; Matoušek, Václav
The mixed classical and extended kinetic theory of granular ows is used for modeling the characteristics of particles-water turbulent sheet ow. The open-source solver sedFoam v3.1 is used for the 1-D and 2-D ow simulations. The simulation results are compared to the experimental data measured in the open channel. After that, the simulation parameters are optimized to achieve the best possible agreement between the simulation and the experimental results. The unsatisfactory performance of the KT models and the observed simulation instabilities are discussed.
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