Climate factors such as precipitation and temperature impact the surface water quality through complex physical and chemical mechanisms, which is one of the recent focuses of the IPCC Water Resources Assessment Working Group. Due to the differences in environmental factors and human activities, the response characteristics, i.e. sensitivity, of water quality to climatic factors is not the same among regions. This paper presents an interesting and important question: Will environmental factors such as carbon dioxide emissions and humidity affect the response characteristics of water quality to climatic factors? Based on the long-term observations of large rivers around the world and the model of climate elasticity of water quality, big data analysis on three scales of global, hemisphere and climatic regions was carried out. It includes 12 major water quality parameters of 52 monitoring points of 14 large rivers. The results show that environmental factors such as carbon dioxide concentration, relative humidity and soil moisture enhance the climate response of water temperature, dissolved oxygen, turbidity, total phosphorus and phosphate, while the increase of carbon dioxide emission stabilizes the temperature response of ammonia nitrogen and nitrogen oxides. In the southern hemisphere, soil moisture brings stability, carbon dioxide concentration produces variability, and relative humidity plays a dual role. Soil moisture plays a role in stabilizing water quality response in tropical and arid regions, while relative humidity plays a role in destabilizing water quality response in arid regions. In temperate climate zone, the effects of wind speed are prominent. The high wind speed enhances the rainfall response of non-filtered total phosphorus and the temperature response of dissolved oxygen. Carbon dioxide emissions enhances the temperature response of dissolved orthophosphate. The paper explains the possible mechanisms of these environmental factors with literature support. This study provides directional guidance for future water environment management in the context of climate change.
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TY - JOUR T1 - CO2 and Humidity Affect the Characteristics of Surface Water Quality Response to Climatic Factors AU - Hongxing Song AU - Afed Ullah Khan AU - Yuan Chen AU - Minye Zhu AU - Jiping Jiang Y1 - 2022/12/29 PY - 2022 N1 - https://doi.org/10.11648/j.hyd.20221004.13 DO - 10.11648/j.hyd.20221004.13 T2 - Hydrology JF - Hydrology JO - Hydrology SP - 86 EP - 95 PB - Science Publishing Group SN - 2330-7617 UR - https://doi.org/10.11648/j.hyd.20221004.13 AB - Climate factors such as precipitation and temperature impact the surface water quality through complex physical and chemical mechanisms, which is one of the recent focuses of the IPCC Water Resources Assessment Working Group. Due to the differences in environmental factors and human activities, the response characteristics, i.e. sensitivity, of water quality to climatic factors is not the same among regions. This paper presents an interesting and important question: Will environmental factors such as carbon dioxide emissions and humidity affect the response characteristics of water quality to climatic factors? Based on the long-term observations of large rivers around the world and the model of climate elasticity of water quality, big data analysis on three scales of global, hemisphere and climatic regions was carried out. It includes 12 major water quality parameters of 52 monitoring points of 14 large rivers. The results show that environmental factors such as carbon dioxide concentration, relative humidity and soil moisture enhance the climate response of water temperature, dissolved oxygen, turbidity, total phosphorus and phosphate, while the increase of carbon dioxide emission stabilizes the temperature response of ammonia nitrogen and nitrogen oxides. In the southern hemisphere, soil moisture brings stability, carbon dioxide concentration produces variability, and relative humidity plays a dual role. Soil moisture plays a role in stabilizing water quality response in tropical and arid regions, while relative humidity plays a role in destabilizing water quality response in arid regions. In temperate climate zone, the effects of wind speed are prominent. The high wind speed enhances the rainfall response of non-filtered total phosphorus and the temperature response of dissolved oxygen. Carbon dioxide emissions enhances the temperature response of dissolved orthophosphate. The paper explains the possible mechanisms of these environmental factors with literature support. This study provides directional guidance for future water environment management in the context of climate change. VL - 10 IS - 4 ER -
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