Gerzabek M H, Barceló D, Bellin A, Rijnaarts H H M, Slob A, Darmendrail D, Fowler H J, Négrel Ph, Frank E, Grathwohl P, Kuntz D, Barth J A C
University of Tübingen, Center for Applied Geoscience, Sigwartstr 10, Tübingen, Germany.
J Environ Manage. 2007 Jul;84(2):237-43. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2006.10.014. Epub 2006 Dec 12.
The integrated project "AquaTerra" with the full title "integrated modeling of the river-sediment-soil-groundwater system; advanced tools for the management of catchment areas and river basins in the context of global change" is among the first environmental projects within the sixth Framework Program of the European Union. Commencing in June 2004, it brought together a multidisciplinary team of 45 partner organizations from 12 EU countries, Romania, Switzerland, Serbia and Montenegro. AquaTerra is an ambitious project with the primary objective of laying the foundations for a better understanding of the behavior of environmental pollutants and their fluxes in the soil-sediment-water system with respect to climate and land use changes. The project performs research as well as modeling on river-sediment-soil-groundwater systems through quantification of deposition, sorption and turnover rates and the development of numerical models to reveal fluxes and trends in soil and sediment functioning. Scales ranging from the laboratory to river basins are addressed with the potential to provide improved river basin management, enhanced soil and groundwater monitoring as well as the early identification and forecasting of impacts on water quantity and quality. Study areas are the catchments of the Ebro, Meuse, Elbe and Danube Rivers and the Brévilles Spring. Here we outline the general structure of the project and the activities conducted within eleven existing sub-projects of AquaTerra.
名为“AquaTerra”的综合项目，全称为“河流 - 沉积物 - 土壤 - 地下水系统的综合建模；全球变化背景下流域和河流流域管理的先进工具”，是欧盟第六框架计划下的首批环境项目之一。该项目于2004年6月启动，汇集了来自12个欧盟国家、罗马尼亚、瑞士、塞尔维亚和黑山的45个合作伙伴组织组成的多学科团队。AquaTerra是一个雄心勃勃的项目，其主要目标是为更好地理解环境污染物在土壤 - 沉积物 - 水系统中的行为及其通量随气候和土地利用变化的情况奠定基础。该项目通过量化沉积、吸附和周转率以及开发数值模型来揭示土壤和沉积物功能中的通量和趋势，对河流 - 沉积物 - 土壤 - 地下水系统进行研究和建模。研究范围涵盖从实验室到河流流域的尺度，有望提供改进的流域管理、加强土壤和地下水监测以及对水量和水质影响的早期识别和预测。研究区域包括埃布罗河、默兹河、易北河和多瑙河的集水区以及布雷维耶勒泉。在此，我们概述该项目的总体结构以及在AquaTerra的11个现有子项目中开展的活动。
