Intraseasonal Dynamics of River Discharge and Burned Forest Areas in Siberia

• Published in: Water
• Main Authors: Evgenii I. Ponomarev, Tatiana V. Ponomareva, Anatoly S. Prokushkin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2019
• Subjects: Siberia; permafrost; river discharge; wildfire; relative burned area; Hydraulic engineering; TC1-978; Water supply for domestic and industrial purposes; TD201-500; Aldan; Podkamennaya; Tunguska; Yakutia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/w11061146; https://doaj.org/article/f6ea32ec26a74182952bd34009f56eb4

This study demonstrates the dependence between the forest burning rates and abnormal decrease in Siberian river discharges under the conditions of the permafrost zone. Our study area is in Central Siberia and Eastern Siberia/Yakutia. Four rivers (Podkamennaya Tunguska, Lower Tunguska, Aldan, and Vil...