Quantitative source apportionment of water solutes and CO2 consumption of the whole Yarlung Tsangpo River basin in Tibet, China

Environmental Science and Pollution Research International
Jiaju LiuHuaicheng Guo

Abstract

The Tibetan Plateau is known as the "Asian water tower," and the Yarlung Tsangpo (YT) River is the largest river that originates in and flows across the southern Tibetan Plateau. Although the solute source of YT River has been extensively and qualitatively analyzed, there is a lack of the quantitative analysis for the whole basin and seasonal variation of hydrochemical characteristics. Here, 212 samples obtained in the mainstream and tributary of YT River in different (wet, normal, and dry) periods were used for the solute apportionment using the mass balance model. The results showed that the solutes in YT River water were mainly derived from the carbonate and silicate rock weathering that accounts 42.2% and 26.9% in the total solute source, respectively, as the complex geological conditions in the basin. A part of the ions (7.5%) was also originated from the atmospheric precipitation as the abundant rainfall in the wet period. Meanwhile, the contribution of solute sources had no significantly seasonal variation in the upstream, whereas it had significantly seasonal variation in the downstream with the tropical climate and heavy rainfall. Importantly, the rock weathering of the basin could consume so much atmospheric CO2 (0.54...Continue Reading

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