TY - JOUR
T1 - Palaeohydrological reconstruction (1500–2000 AD) of a drift sand landscape using pedogeomorphological and historical data (Campine area, NE Belgium)
AU - Beerten, Koen
AU - Leterme, Bertrand
N1 - Score=10
PY - 2015/12/15
Y1 - 2015/12/15
N2 - In order to build confidence in describing the hydrological cycle under future global change, hydrological models not only need to be calibrated and validated with recent data, but should also be tested against different boundary
conditions fromthe past. This requires building a dataset of hydrological state variables againstwhich the modelling output can be tested. We use pedogeomorphological and historical data to monitor hydraulic heads at specific
time slices during the last 500 years for a sandy interfluve in the Nete catchment, NE Belgium. The nature of the archive is temporally and spatially highly discontinuous but allows to observe a systematic drop in phreatic
groundwater levels during the second half of the 19th century. It is concluded that the approach yields promising results and that it might be of use elsewhere in drift sand landscapes across the European sand belt.
AB - In order to build confidence in describing the hydrological cycle under future global change, hydrological models not only need to be calibrated and validated with recent data, but should also be tested against different boundary
conditions fromthe past. This requires building a dataset of hydrological state variables againstwhich the modelling output can be tested. We use pedogeomorphological and historical data to monitor hydraulic heads at specific
time slices during the last 500 years for a sandy interfluve in the Nete catchment, NE Belgium. The nature of the archive is temporally and spatially highly discontinuous but allows to observe a systematic drop in phreatic
groundwater levels during the second half of the 19th century. It is concluded that the approach yields promising results and that it might be of use elsewhere in drift sand landscapes across the European sand belt.
KW - Palaeohydrological modelling
KW - land use change
KW - climate change
KW - Socio-economic evolution
KW - Landscape reconstruction
KW - Groundwater level
UR - http://ecm.sckcen.be/OTCS/llisapi.dll/open/12033950
U2 - 10.1016/j.catena.2015.07.022
DO - 10.1016/j.catena.2015.07.022
M3 - Article
SN - 0341-8162
VL - 135
SP - 208
EP - 218
JO - Catena
JF - Catena
ER -