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Record W2017866427 · doi:10.1002/hyp.6792

A simple heat‐conduction method for simulating the frost‐table depth in hydrological models

2007· article· en· W2017866427 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueHydrological Processes · 2007
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEarth and Planetary Sciences
TopicClimate change and permafrost
Canadian institutionsWilfrid Laurier UniversityGolder Associates (Canada)Simon Fraser UniversityUniversity of Calgary
FundersCanadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric SciencesNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaNational Research Centre
KeywordsPermafrostHydraulic conductivityWater tableSurface runoffActive layerFrost (temperature)Soil thermal propertiesSoil scienceSubsurface flowHydrology (agriculture)Environmental scienceGeologyHeat fluxThermal conductionGroundwaterSoil waterGeotechnical engineeringHeat transferGeomorphologyMaterials scienceLayer (electronics)Mechanics

Abstract

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Abstract Hillslope runoff in permafrost regions covered by organic soil is strongly influenced by subsurface flow in the active layer, as well as surface flow where the active layer is very shallow. Flow rates in the organic‐rich active layer are strongly dependent on the depth to the thawing front (i.e. frost table) and the corresponding soil hydraulic conductivity at that depth. Therefore, hydrological models for permafrost terrains need to simulate the thawing of the active layer accurately. In order to simulate the downward movement of the frost table, a simple heat‐conduction model was proposed and compared to field data from a wet, organic‐covered watershed in a discontinuous permafrost region of Canada. Ground heat flux was measured simultaneously using the calorimetric, gradient, and flux‐plate methods to increase the confidence in data sets. The majority (>86%) of ground heat flux was used to melt the ice in frozen soil, and the soil temperature had a linear profile from the ground surface to the frost table when averaged over several days. Assuming a linear temperature profile, the proposed method calculates the daily rate of thawing from ground surface temperature and bulk thermal conductivity, where the latter is essentially determined by soil water content. Simulated depths to the frost table during three thaw seasons (2003–2005) matched closely with the observed data for two contrasting ground‐cover types with distinctly different thaw rates. The method can be easily implemented in hydrological models, and will provide a useful tool for simulating hillslope drainage in organic‐covered permafrost terrains, and for evaluating the effects of topography and land cover on the temporal and seasonal variability of the frost table. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.302
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Opus teacher head0.125
GPT teacher head0.331
Teacher spread0.206 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it