Assessing the response of groundwater quantity and travel time distribution to 1.5, 2, and 3&thinsp;°C global warming in a mesoscale  central German basin

Jing, Miao; Kumar, Rohini; Heße, Falk; Thober, Stephan; Rakovec, Oldrich; Samaniego, Luis; Attinger, Sabine

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-1511-2020

Articles | Volume 24, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-1511-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-1511-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 24, issue 3

Research article

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31 Mar 2020

Research article |

| 31 Mar 2020

Assessing the response of groundwater quantity and travel time distribution to 1.5, 2, and 3 °C global warming in a mesoscale central German basin

Miao Jing, Rohini Kumar, Falk Heße, Stephan Thober, Oldrich Rakovec, Luis Samaniego, and Sabine Attinger

Model code and software

mHM#OGS v1.0: the coupling interface between the mesoscale Hydrologic Model (mHM) and the groundwater model OpenGeoSys (OGS) M. Jing, R. Kumar, F. Heße, S. Thober, O. Rakovec, L. Samaniego, and S. Attinger https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1248005

mesoscale Hydrologic Model (Version v5.9) L. Samaniego, R. Kumar, S. Thober, O. Rakovec, R. Schweppe, D. Schäfer, M. Schrön, J. Brenner, C. M. Demirel, M. Kaluza, M. Jing, B. Langenberg, and S. Attinger https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1299584

OpenGeoSys-5 O. Kolditz https://www.opengeosys.org/ogs-5

Short summary

This study investigates the response of regional groundwater system to the climate change under three global warming levels (1.5, 2, and 3 °C) in a central German basin. A comprehensive uncertainty analysis is also presented. This study indicates that the variability of responses increases with the amount of global warming, which might affect the cost of managing the groundwater system.