{"id":1176,"date":"2026-07-27T15:16:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T19:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/?p=1176"},"modified":"2026-07-27T15:19:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T19:19:19","slug":"do-karst-springs-with-their-fast-conduit-flow-paths-respond-more-sharply-to-a-warming-climate-than-everything-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/2026\/07\/27\/do-karst-springs-with-their-fast-conduit-flow-paths-respond-more-sharply-to-a-warming-climate-than-everything-else\/","title":{"rendered":"Do karst springs, with their fast conduit flow paths, respond more sharply to a warming climate than everything else?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br><br>Mostly, no.<br><br>We pulled together 49 springs across the US and Europe \u2014 every one with at least 30 years of daily discharge \u2014 and found discharge trends that were small and remarkably similar across a dataset spanning 0.001 to 25 m\u00b3\/s and variability indices from 45% to 6500%. Flashy springs behaved a lot like less variable ones. The most likely explanation is that groundwater storage buffers hydrologic stress even in highly karstified aquifers \u2014 the spring with the largest decline, Silver Spring in Florida, sits in a confined, low-storage system with heavy pumping nearby.<br><br>Warmer air temperatures were associated with declining discharge, but bigger temperature trends did not produce bigger discharge trends. Vulnerability looks like a combination of drivers, not a single one.<br><br>Now out in Groundwater, open access: &#8220;Long-Term Discharge Records from United States and European Karst Springs: Data Limitations in Trend Analysis.&#8221;<br><br>Dr. Toran took the lead on this one. I helped mostly with the statistical analysis.<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/gwat.70093\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/gwat.70093<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mostly, no. We pulled together 49 springs across the US and Europe \u2014 every one with at least 30 years of daily discharge \u2014 and found discharge trends that were small and remarkably similar across a dataset spanning 0.001 to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/2026\/07\/27\/do-karst-springs-with-their-fast-conduit-flow-paths-respond-more-sharply-to-a-warming-climate-than-everything-else\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":606,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/606"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1176"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1180,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions\/1180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}