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Title: A simple mixing model using electrical conductivity yields robust hydrograph separation in a tropical montane catchment
Authors: Lazo Jara, Patricio Xavier
Crespo Sanchez, Patricio Xavier
Cardenas Moreno, Irene Lucila
Keywords: Páramo
Tropical Andes
Mixing model
TraSPAN
Specific conductance
Flow partition
metadata.dc.ucuenca.areaconocimientofrascatiamplio: 2. Ingeniería y Tecnología
metadata.dc.ucuenca.areaconocimientofrascatidetallado: 2.2.2 Robótica y Control Automático
metadata.dc.ucuenca.areaconocimientofrascatiespecifico: 2.2 Ingenierias Eléctrica, Electrónica e Información
metadata.dc.ucuenca.areaconocimientounescoamplio: 07 - Ingeniería, Industria y Construcción
metadata.dc.ucuenca.areaconocimientounescodetallado: 0714 - Electrónica y Automatización
metadata.dc.ucuenca.areaconocimientounescoespecifico: 071 - Ingeniería y Profesiones Afines
Issue Date: 2024
metadata.dc.ucuenca.embargoend: 31-Dec-2050
metadata.dc.ucuenca.volumen: Volumen 639
metadata.dc.source: Journal of Hydrology
metadata.dc.identifier.doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2024.131632
metadata.dc.type: ARTÍCULO
Abstract: 
Hydrograph separation assessment is crucial to understand stormflow generation at catchments worldwide. Tracer-based methods provide robust estimations of event (or new) and pre-event (or old) water fractions as they account for external and internal catchment hydrological behavior. While models of different mathematical and computational complexity are often used in tracer-based hydrograph separation studies, direct comparisons between those models are limited. Here, we compare hydrograph separation results yielded by the simplest Two-Component Mixing Model (TCMM) and a Tracer-based Streamflow Partitioning ANalysis model (TraSPAN) assumed to provide robust results as it combines conceptual rainfall-runoff modelling with tracers’ mass balance. We carried out the analysis using high temporal frequency (sub-daily to sub-hourly) data of two tracers, Oxygen-18 and Electrical Conductivity (EC), monitored during 37 rainfall-runoff events with different hydrometeorological conditions in a high-Andean páramo catchment located at the Zhurucay Ecohydrological Observatory in southern Ecuador. Both approaches yield similar estimations of event and pre-event water fractions regardless of the tracer used as long as appropriate concentrations of event (Ce) and pre-event (Cp) water for the TCMM are determined. Although the estimate of Ce has little influence with one rainfall sample collected during the event being sufficient to obtain reliable results, results hinge heavily on the estimate of Cp. We found that the TCMM yields similar results than TraSPAN when Cp is represented by the stream water concentration corresponding to a sample collected prior to the beginning of each of the events. We conclude that the combination of a simple framework (TCMM) with sub-hourly EC measurements provides reliable hydrograph separation results when representative Cp samples are used. These findings will allow to lower the logistical and economical resources needed to adequately assess hydrograph separation and to carry out quasi-continuous assessments of flow partitioning with high accuracy in high-Andean páramo catchments.
URI: https://dspace.ucuenca.edu.ec/handle/123456789/45816
https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85197414341&origin=resultslist&sort=plf-f&src=s&sot=b&sdt=b&s=TITLE-ABS-KEY%28A+simple+mixing+model+using+electrical+conductivity+yields+robust+hydrograph+separation+in+a+tropical+montane+catchment%29&sessionSearchId=56d41a5675d041e41ef00e30699ce811&relpos=0
metadata.dc.ucuenca.urifuente: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-hydrology
ISSN: 00221694
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