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Submarine fresh groundwater discharge into Laizhou Bay comparable to the Yellow River flux
Wang, X.; Li, H.; Jiao, J.J.; Barry, D.A.; Li, L.; Luo, X.; Wang, C.; Wan, L.; Wang, X.; Jiang, J.; Ma, Q.; Qu, W. (2015). Submarine fresh groundwater discharge into Laizhou Bay comparable to the Yellow River flux. NPG Scientific Reports 5(8814): 7 pp. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep08814
In: Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group). Nature Publishing Group: London. ISSN 2045-2322; e-ISSN 2045-2322, more
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Keywords
    Hydrogeology
    Marine chemistry
    Marine/Coastal

Authors  Top 
  • Wang, X.
  • Li, H.
  • Jiao, J.J.
  • Barry, D.A.
  • Li, L.
  • Luo, X.
  • Wang, C.
  • Wan, L.
  • Wang, X.
  • Jiang, J.
  • Ma, Q.
  • Qu, W.

Abstract
    Near- and off-shore fresh groundwater resources become increasingly important with the social and economic development in coastal areas. Although large scale (hundreds of km) submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) to the ocean has been shown to be of the same magnitude order as river discharge, submarine fresh groundwater discharge (SFGD) with magnitude comparable to large river discharge is never reported. Here, we proposed a method coupling mass-balance models of water, salt and radium isotopes based on field data of 223Ra, 226Ra and salinity to estimate the SFGD, SGD. By applying the method in Laizhou Bay (a water area of ~6000 km2), we showed that the SFGD and SGD are 0.57 ~ 0.88 times and 7.35 ~ 8.57 times the annual Yellow River flux in August 2012, respectively. The estimate of SFGD ranges from 4.12 × 107 m3/d to 6.36 × 107 m3/d, while SGD ranges from 5.32 × 108 m3/d to 6.20 × 108 m3/d. The proportion of the Yellow River input into Laizhou Bay was less than 14% of the total in August 2012. Our method can be used to estimate SFGD in various coastal waters.

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