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Northern Research Basins Water Balance

Edited by Douglas L. Kane & Daqing Yang

IAHS Publ. 290 (November 2004) ISBN 1-901502-82-1, 280 + viii pp. Price £58.50

In the mid-1970s, hydrologists from circumpolar countries established the Northern Research Basins (NRB) group which has since organized meetings every 2–3 years. A working group of NRB on water balance organized a workshop of March 2004 for the purpose of collecting and synthesizing water balance data for northern experimental research basins, and this publication is the outcome.

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The extreme environment, low population and logistical costs often frustrate efforts to enhance hydrological understanding of the high latitude regions of the world. However, insights into hydrological processes there have been gained by compiling existing water balance data sets. Results from 39 research watersheds in the USA, Canada, Japan, Russia, Norway, Greenland, and Finland are collected in this volume, with three contributions that highlight some of the significant problems in producing quality water balance results. An overview synthesizes all the information amounting to water balance data for over 500 basin years, distributed temporally from 1958 to the present.

The considerable amount of information provided and discussed will serve as a benchmark for future work in high latitude regions.

Contents

Preface by Douglas L. Kane & Daqing Yang	v
Overview of water balance determinations for high latitude watersheds Douglas L. Kane & Daqing Yang	1
Water balance of a snowy watershed in Hokkaido, Japan Yoshiyuki Ishii, Yuji Kodama, Ryo Nakamura & Nobuyoshi Ishikawa	13
Features of water balance for small mountainous watersheds in East Siberia: Kolyma Water Balance Station case study Sergei A. Zhuravin	28
Estimation of annual water balance in Siberian tundra using a new land surface model Hiroyuki Hirashima, Tetsuo Ohata, Yuji Kodama & Hironori Yabuki	41
Summer water balance in an Arctic tundra basin, eastern Siberia Yoshiyuki Ishii, Yuji Kodama, Norifumi Sato & Hironori Yabuki	50
Water balance of small Russian catchments in the southern mountainous Taiga Zone: "Mogot" case study Ninel G. Vasilenko	65
Features of forest-steppe small basins water balance: the Nizhnedevitsk Water Balance Station case study Sergei А. Zhuravin	78
Water balances of experimental watersheds in the Valdai Branch of the State Hydrological Institute (SHI), Russia J. A. Balonishnikova, O. I. Krestovsky & V. A. Shutov	91
Extensive studies in boreal wetland watersheds in northwestern Russia Vladimir A. Shutov	103
Water balances of the northern catchments of Finland Pertti Seuna & Jarmo Linjama	111
Water balance studies in two catchments on Spitsbergen, Svalbard Ånund Killingtveit	120
Estimation of water balance in and around the Mittivakkat Glacier basin, Ammassalik Island, southeast Greenland Bent Hasholt & Sebastian H. Mernild	139
Water balance in a west Greenlandic watershed Christian Helweg	143
Queen Elizabeth Islands: water balance investigations Kathy L. Young & Ming-Ko Woo	152
Hydrological processes and water balance for the Dead Creek Watershed of southeastern Manitoba, 1982–1995 Garry Thorne & Janice Hawkins	164
Evaporation studies in small NWT watersheds Bob Reid & Derek Faria	178
The water balance of wetland-dominated permafrost basins W. L. Quinton, M. Hayashi, K. E. Blais, N. Wright & A. Peitroniro	186
Wolf Creek Research Basin water balance studies J. Richard Janowicz, Newell Hedstrom, John Pomeroy, Raoul Granger & Sean Carey	195
A multi-year hydrological data set for two research basins in the Mackenzie Delta region, NW Canada Philip Marsh, Cuyler Onclin & Mark Russell	205
Water balance dynamics of three small catchments in a Sub-Arctic boreal forest W. Robert Bolton, Larry Hinzman & Kenji Yoshikawa	213
Hydrological cycle on the north slope of Alaska Douglas L. Kane, Robert E. Gieck, Danielle C. Kitover, Larry D. Hinzman, James P. McNamara & Daqing Yang	224
Queen Elizabeth Islands: problems associated with water balance research Kathy L. Young & Ming-Ko Woo	237
Winter streamflow as a source of uncertainty in water balance calculations Stuart Hamilton	249
Diagnostic model analysis of spatial mass, energy and melt distribution in a catchment in northeast Greenland Carl Egede Bøggild	257

Key word index	269
Author index	271