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Karst water resources in a changing world: Review of solute transport modelling approaches
Summary
This review examined solute transport modeling approaches for karst water resources under changing climate conditions, evaluating how models handle rapid conduit flow, matrix diffusion, and the effects of extreme precipitation events. The authors identify a need for models that better capture the high variability and rapid response characteristics of karst systems under more frequent storm events.
Karst water resources are valuable freshwater sources for around 10 % of the world population. Nonetheless, anthropogenic factors and global changes have been seriously deteriorating the karst water quality and dependent ecosystems. Solute transport models are powerful tools to monitor, control, and manage the water quality and dependent ecosystem functioning. By representing and predicting the spatiotemporal behavior of solute migration in karst systems, the transport models enhance our understanding about the karst transport processes, thus enabling us to explore contamination risks and potential outcomes. This paper reviews the current state of knowledge on the modelling of solute transport processes in karst aquifers, thereby unveiling the fundamental challenges underlying a successful karst transport modelling. We discuss to what extent and in what ways we can handle these challenges and derive the key challenges and directions for reliable modelling of transport processes in karst systems in the present context of global changes.
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