Seasonal and interannual variability in runoff from the Werenskioldbreen catchment, Spitsbergen

• Published in: Polish Polar Research
• Main Authors: Majchrowska, Elżbieta, Ignatiuk, Dariusz, Jania, Jacek, Marszałek, Henryk, Wąsik, Mirosław
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Arctic; Spitsbergen; Werenskioldbreen; discharge variability; rainfall and ablation regimes; Svalbard; Bergen; glacier; Polar Research
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12128/14556; https://doi.org/10.1515/popore−2015−0014

The results from a hydrological monitoring program of Breelva basin (Spits− bergen, Svalbard) have been analysed to improve the understanding of the Werenskiöld Glacier system’s functioning in the High Arctic. Hydrographs of a 44 km2 river basin (27 km2 of which was covered by a glacier) were analys...