干旱区生态环境知识资源中心(Arid): Isotopic Characterization of Rainwater for the Development of a Local Meteoric Water Line in an Arid Climate: The Case of the Wadi Ziz Watershed (South-Eastern Morocco)

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DOI	10.3390/w14050779
	Isotopic Characterization of Rainwater for the Development of a Local Meteoric Water Line in an Arid Climate: The Case of the Wadi Ziz Watershed (South-Eastern Morocco)
	El Ouali, Anas; Roubil, Allal; Lahrach, Abderrahim; Mudry, Jacques; El Ghali, Tibari; Qurtobi, Mohamed; El Hafyani, Mohammed; Alitane, Abdennabi; El Hmaidi, Abdellah; Essahlaoui, Ali; Van Rompaey, Anton
通讯作者	El Ouali, A
来源期刊	WATER
EISSN	2073-4441
出版年	2022
卷号	14 期号:5
英文摘要	For any hydrological or hydrogeological system, the arrival of new rains is the input signal to the system. This isotopic signature of precipitation is of major interest in understanding the recharge processes of the aquifer system. On the scale of a given basin, staged stations at different altitudes and spread out in space allow this input signal to be well characterized and to draw the local meteoric water line. In south-eastern Morocco, specifically, in the Errachidia region, several chemical and isotopic studies of the waters of the various aquifers have been carried out. In the absence of a local meteoric water line, these studies were based on the use of the global meteoric water line (GMWL). Thus, the objective of this work is the isotopic characterization and the elaboration of the local meteoric water line of the rainwater of the Ziz watershed. This characterization of the input signal in the study area is based on 41 measurements of stable isotopes (delta O-18 and delta H-2) relating to the precipitations collected during the period from December 2019 to November 2020 in four staged stations at different altitudes and spread over the space from upstream to downstream of the watershed. The linear relationship of delta H-2 as a function of delta O-18 describes the local meteoric water line (LMWL) by equation delta H-2 = 7.5 +/- 0.3 delta O-18 + 4.6 +/- 1.7; R-2 = 0.93. This equation displays evaporation confirmed by the arrival of continental currents in an arid environment. The variation in precipitation delta O-18 as a function of the sampling altitudes for the rains highlighted the relationship delta O-18 = -0.0026 * Z - 1.67, with R-2 = 0.93, which means an altitudinal gradient of -0.26 parts per thousand per 100 m of altitude. In this regard, the development of the local meteoric water line and the determination of the altitudinal gradient for the first time in this arid to semi-arid region of the watershed will be of great use to researchers and water resource managers; for example, to help determine the groundwater recharge areas, determine the exchanges between surface water and groundwater, and analyze many other hydrological problems.
英文关键词	characterization isotope meteoric line rain Ziz watershed
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	Green Published, gold
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000770922500001
WOS关键词	AQUIFER ; PRECIPITATION ; SALINIZATION ; DEUTERIUM ; RECHARGE ; TRACERS ; BASIN ; RIVER ; O-18
WOS类目	Environmental Sciences ; Water Resources
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Water Resources
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/394766
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	El Ouali, Anas,Roubil, Allal,Lahrach, Abderrahim,et al. Isotopic Characterization of Rainwater for the Development of a Local Meteoric Water Line in an Arid Climate: The Case of the Wadi Ziz Watershed (South-Eastern Morocco)[J],2022,14(5).
APA	El Ouali, Anas.,Roubil, Allal.,Lahrach, Abderrahim.,Mudry, Jacques.,El Ghali, Tibari.,...&Van Rompaey, Anton.(2022).Isotopic Characterization of Rainwater for the Development of a Local Meteoric Water Line in an Arid Climate: The Case of the Wadi Ziz Watershed (South-Eastern Morocco).WATER,14(5).
MLA	El Ouali, Anas,et al."Isotopic Characterization of Rainwater for the Development of a Local Meteoric Water Line in an Arid Climate: The Case of the Wadi Ziz Watershed (South-Eastern Morocco)".WATER 14.5(2022).