A multi-environmental tracer study to determine  groundwater residence times and recharge in a  structurally complex multi-aquifer system

Wilske, Cornelia; Suckow, Axel; Mallast, Ulf; Meier, Christiane; Merchel, Silke; Merkel, Broder; Pavetich, Stefan; Rödiger, Tino; Rugel, Georg; Sachse, Agnes; Weise, Stephan M.; Siebert, Christian

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-249-2020

Articles | Volume 24, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-249-2020

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

Special issue:

Environmental changes and hazards in the Dead Sea region (NHESS/ACP/HESS/SE...

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-249-2020

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

Articles | Volume 24, issue 1

Research article

|

16 Jan 2020

Research article |

| 16 Jan 2020

A multi-environmental tracer study to determine groundwater residence times and recharge in a structurally complex multi-aquifer system

Cornelia Wilske, Axel Suckow, Ulf Mallast, Christiane Meier, Silke Merchel, Broder Merkel, Stefan Pavetich, Tino Rödiger, Georg Rugel, Agnes Sachse, Stephan M. Weise, and Christian Siebert

Download

Final revised paper (published on 16 Jan 2020)
Preprint (discussion started on 09 Sep 2019)

Interactive discussion

Status: closed

AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

- Printer-friendly version

- Supplement

RC1: 'A multi-environmental tracer study to determine groundwater residence times and recharge in a structurally complex multi-aquifer system', Joseph Guttman, 08 Oct 2019
- AC1: 'Reply to Interactive Comment by J. Guttman', Christian Siebert, 07 Nov 2019
RC2: 'Comments', Nathan A. Sheffer, 05 Nov 2019
- AC2: 'Reply to interactive comment by N.A. Sheffer', Christian Siebert, 07 Nov 2019

Peer-review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by editor and referees) (14 Nov 2019) by Efrat Morin

AR by Christian Siebert on behalf of the Authors (18 Nov 2019) Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (11 Dec 2019) by Efrat Morin

AR by Christian Siebert on behalf of the Authors (13 Dec 2019) Manuscript

Short summary

Despite feeding several million people, the flow system and inter-aquifer communication within one of the major aquifer systems in Israel and the West Bank is still poorly understood. Applying a combination of inorganic elements, anthropogenic organic trace substances and classical environmental age-dating tracers like ³H, CFCs, SF₆ and ³⁶Cl / Cl, groundwater flow patterns, mixing end-members, transport times and recharge estimates have been obtained despite very limited data.