Articles | Volume 25, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-6001-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-6001-2021
Research article
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23 Nov 2021
Research article |  | 23 Nov 2021

Gravity as a tool to improve the hydrologic mass budget in karstic areas

Tommaso Pivetta, Carla Braitenberg, Franci Gabrovšek, Gerald Gabriel, and Bruno Meurers

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Gravimetry offers a valid complement to classical hydrologic measurements in order to characterize karstic systems in which the recharge process causes fast accumulation of large water volumes in the voids of the epi-phreatic system. In this contribution we show an innovative integration of gravimetric and hydrologic observations to constrain a hydrodynamic model of the Škocjan Caves (Slovenia). We demonstrate how the inclusion of gravity observations improves the water mass budget estimates.
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