River ice responses to a warming Arctic—recent evidence from Russian rivers
This paper looks at the response of river ice to recent warming in the Arctic at six major downstream gauges on large Russian rivers flowing to the Arctic Ocean. For the Severnaya Dvina, Ob, Yenisey, Lena, Yana and Kolyma we determine how river ice has changed in recent years and we try to understan...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:61d9436f2b524aa88cc8ed5a6fb05c9f 2023-09-05T13:16:42+02:00 River ice responses to a warming Arctic—recent evidence from Russian rivers A I Shiklomanov R B Lammers 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/9/3/035008 https://doaj.org/article/61d9436f2b524aa88cc8ed5a6fb05c9f EN eng IOP Publishing https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/9/3/035008 https://doaj.org/toc/1748-9326 doi:10.1088/1748-9326/9/3/035008 1748-9326 https://doaj.org/article/61d9436f2b524aa88cc8ed5a6fb05c9f Environmental Research Letters, Vol 9, Iss 3, p 035008 (2014) river ice Arctic hydrology climate change Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering TD1-1066 Environmental sciences GE1-350 Science Q Physics QC1-999 article 2014 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/9/3/035008 2023-08-13T00:37:28Z This paper looks at the response of river ice to recent warming in the Arctic at six major downstream gauges on large Russian rivers flowing to the Arctic Ocean. For the Severnaya Dvina, Ob, Yenisey, Lena, Yana and Kolyma we determine how river ice has changed in recent years and we try to understand the underlying causes of those changes. Long-term variability and trends in beginning and ending dates of ice events, duration of ice conditions, and maximum ice thickness were analyzed over 1955–2012. Significant changes in timing of ice events and a decrease in ice thickness were found for the five Siberian rivers. Duration of ice conditions decreased from 7 days for the Severnaya Dvina, Lena and Yenisey to almost 20 days for the Ob at Salekhard. The change in timing of ice events is consistent with changes in regional air temperature, which has significantly increased at each of these river gauges, except Lena-Kusur. The primary cause of the considerable increase in maximum ice thickness was not identified. Variation of mean winter air temperature and river discharge do not correlate well with maximum ice thickness and it is assumed the influence of specific local conditions can play a more important role in ice formation at these locations. Understanding this interrelationship across the Eurasian pan-Arctic using more comprehensive data archives for river ice and discharge is therefore needed. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Ocean Climate change dvina Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic Arctic Ocean Kolyma ENVELOPE(161.000,161.000,69.500,69.500) Salekhard ENVELOPE(66.602,66.602,66.530,66.530) Severnaya Dvina ENVELOPE(40.494,40.494,64.532,64.532) Yenisey ENVELOPE(82.680,82.680,71.828,71.828) Environmental Research Letters 9 3 035008 |
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This paper looks at the response of river ice to recent warming in the Arctic at six major downstream gauges on large Russian rivers flowing to the Arctic Ocean. For the Severnaya Dvina, Ob, Yenisey, Lena, Yana and Kolyma we determine how river ice has changed in recent years and we try to understand the underlying causes of those changes. Long-term variability and trends in beginning and ending dates of ice events, duration of ice conditions, and maximum ice thickness were analyzed over 1955–2012. Significant changes in timing of ice events and a decrease in ice thickness were found for the five Siberian rivers. Duration of ice conditions decreased from 7 days for the Severnaya Dvina, Lena and Yenisey to almost 20 days for the Ob at Salekhard. The change in timing of ice events is consistent with changes in regional air temperature, which has significantly increased at each of these river gauges, except Lena-Kusur. The primary cause of the considerable increase in maximum ice thickness was not identified. Variation of mean winter air temperature and river discharge do not correlate well with maximum ice thickness and it is assumed the influence of specific local conditions can play a more important role in ice formation at these locations. Understanding this interrelationship across the Eurasian pan-Arctic using more comprehensive data archives for river ice and discharge is therefore needed. |
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River ice responses to a warming Arctic—recent evidence from Russian rivers |
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River ice responses to a warming Arctic—recent evidence from Russian rivers |
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River ice responses to a warming Arctic—recent evidence from Russian rivers |
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River ice responses to a warming Arctic—recent evidence from Russian rivers |
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River ice responses to a warming Arctic—recent evidence from Russian rivers |
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river ice responses to a warming arctic—recent evidence from russian rivers |
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