The amount of total organic carbon (TOC) in water is a rough indicator of the waterquality. Driven by the question how the TOC concentration would vary acrossstreams in Sweden under different climate conditions (e.g. more extreme dischargeevents), the temporal dynamics of TOC were examined for different stream subgroupswith six orders of magnitude catchment area span. In addition, the relationshipbetween dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) export (both downstream and evasion) anddischarge conditions was also studied. Another question addressed was if the amountof TOC exported can be affected by export conditions dominating the previousseason. TOC export followed closely the discharge, which is in agreement withprevious studies, and all 42 catchments studied across Sweden were described by thispositive relationship regardless their size. A linear TOC export response to dischargewas identified during extreme discharge conditions. Furthermore, the TOC export wassignificantly related to the antecedent TOC export conditions for approximately halfof the 18 studied catchments with areas ranging between 2.5·10-3 and 67 km2.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:uu-175716 |
| Date | January 2012 |
| Creators | Amvrosiadi, Nino |
| Publisher | Uppsala universitet, Luft-, vatten och landskapslära |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | Examensarbete vid Institutionen för geovetenskaper, 1650-6553 ; 234 |
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