Response of Siberian River Discharge to Disturbances of Forests Caused by Wildfires

• Published in: ECWS-3
• Main Authors: Evgenii I. Ponomarev, Tatiana V. Ponomareva
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2018
• Subjects: Siberia; permafrost zone; river basins; discharge; wildfire; relative burned area; Aldan; Nizhnyaya Tunguska; Podkamennaya; Tunguska; permafrost
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/ECWS-3-05801

The objective of this work was to perform a quantitative analysis of the correlation between the forest burning index and abnormal decrease in river discharge under conditions of the cryolithozone of Siberia. We analyzed the long-term and seasonal variation of river discharge in Central Siberia (Niz...