KARMA Deliverables
Work Package 1 - Project Management, Dissemination & Communication
Work Package 2 - Water availability
- Deliverable 2.1 Preliminary water budget
- Deliverable 2.2 Recharge evaluation
- Deliverable 2.3 Stable Isotopes
- Deliverable 2.4 Tracer tests
- Deliverable 2.6 Spring discharge monitoring
- Deliverable 2.7 Uncertainties in water budget
Work Package 3 - Water quality
- Deliverable 3.1 Design and implementation of the Mediterranean karst springs monitoring network
- Deliverable 3.2 Preparatory actions for the development and implementation of early warning systems (EWS) for spring water contamination
- Deliverable 3.3 Validation of individual EWS for spring and system efficiency assessment
- Deliverable 3.4 Vulnerability mapping, validation and risk assessment in Mediterranean karst sites
- Deliverable 3.5 Evaluation of karst groundwater-dependent ecosystems (KGDE) environmental status
Work Package 4 - Modeling tools
- Deliverable 4.1 Report of topology of karst system
- Deliverable 4.2 Aplication of lumped parameter modeling at the KARMA test sites
- Deliverable 4.3 Application of Artificial Neural Network models at KARMA test sites
- Deliverable 4.4 Release of modeling tools: Lumped parameter modeling (https://github.com/HSM-hydro/KARMA_D44)
- Deliverable 4.4 Release of modeling tools: Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) (https://github.com/KITHydrogeology/KARMA_Project)
Work Package 5 - Mediterranean karst aquifer map & database
KARMA policy briefs
- Modeling karst spring discharge with Artificial Neural Networks
- Investigation of changes in groundwater storage in the Euro-Mediterranean region using GRACE satellite data
- Karst groundwater pollution risk in the Mediterranean region
- Reservoir Modelling
KARMA Publications
Goeppert, N., Goldscheider, N., & Berkowitz, B. (2020). Experimental and modeling evidence of kilometer-scale anomalous tracer transport in an alpine karst aquifer. Water Research, 115755. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2020.115755
Marín, Ana I., José Francisco Martín Rodríguez, Juan Antonio Barberá, Jaime Fernández-Ortega, Matías Mudarra, Damián Sánchez, and Bartolomé Andreo (2021). Groundwater vulnerability to pollution in karst aquifers, considering key challenges and considerations: application to the Ubrique springs in southern Spain. Hydrogeology Journal (2021): 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10040-020-02279-8
Cinkus, G., Mazzilli, N., & Jourde, H. (2021). Identification of relevant indicators for the assessment of karst systems hydrological functioning: proposal of a new classification. Journal of Hydrology, 127006. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.127006
Xanke, J., Liesch, T. Quantification and possible causes of declining groundwater resources in the Euro-Mediterranean region from 2003 to 2020. Hydrogeol J (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10040-021-02448-3
Lorenzi, V., Sbarbati, C., Banzato, F., Lacchini, A., & Petitta, M. (2022). Recharge assessment of the Gran Sasso aquifer (Central Italy): Time-variable infiltration and influence of snow cover extension. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 41, 101090. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrh.2022.101090
Frank, S., Fahrmeier, N., Goeppert, N., Goldscheider, N. (2022): High-resolution multi-parameter monitoring of microbial water quality and particles at two alpine karst springs as a basis for an early-warning system. HydrogeolJ 2022.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10040-022-02556-8