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: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2019
• Subjects: Siberia; permafrost; river discharge; wildfire; relative burned area; Aldan; Podkamennaya; Tunguska; Yakutia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/w11061146

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...