Rising Minimum Daily Flows in Northern Eurasian Rivers: A Growing Influence of Groundwater in the High-Latitude Hydrologic Cycle

• Main Authors: Laurence C. Smith, Tamlin M. Pavelsky, Glen M. Macdonald, Er I. Shiklomanov, Richard B. Lammers
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Yenisey; permafrost; Siberia
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.484.999; http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/geog/downloads/297/292.pdf

[1] A first analysis of new daily discharge data for 111 northern rivers from 1936–1999 and 1958–1989 finds an overall pattern of increasing minimum daily flows (or ‘‘low flows’’) throughout Russia. These increases are generally more abundant than are increases in mean flow and appear to drive much...