From land to fjords: The review of Svalbard hydrology from 1970 to 2019 (SvalHydro)
This is chapter 7 of the State of Environmental Science in Svalbard (SESS) report 2020 (https://sios-svalbard.org/SESS_Issue3). Svalbard was long seen as a canary in the coalmine for climate change. Now this early warning system has suffered irreparable damage. Svalbard has warmed 2-6 times faster t...
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ftzenodo:oai:zenodo.org:4294063 2023-05-15T14:54:15+02:00 From land to fjords: The review of Svalbard hydrology from 1970 to 2019 (SvalHydro) Nowak, Aga Hodgkins, Richard Nikulina, Anna Osuch, Marzena Wawrzyniak, Tomasz Kavan, Jan Łepkowska, Elżbieta Majerska, Marta Romashova, Ksenia Vasilevich, Igor Sobota, Ireneusz Rachlewicz, Grzegorz 2021-01-11 https://zenodo.org/record/4294063 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4294063 eng eng Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System doi:10.5281/zenodo.4294062 https://zenodo.org/communities/sios https://zenodo.org/record/4294063 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4294063 oai:zenodo.org:4294063 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode Arctic hydrology hydrological monitoring in Svalbard water balance climate change in the Arctic freshwater fluxes into polar ocean water resources hydrological processes water budget in Svalbard info:eu-repo/semantics/report publication-report 2021 ftzenodo https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.429406310.5281/zenodo.4294062 2023-03-11T03:43:07Z This is chapter 7 of the State of Environmental Science in Svalbard (SESS) report 2020 (https://sios-svalbard.org/SESS_Issue3). Svalbard was long seen as a canary in the coalmine for climate change. Now this early warning system has suffered irreparable damage. Svalbard has warmed 2-6 times faster than the rest of the world, and we can expect further increase in air temperature (by 4–7°C), precipitation (by 45–65%) and more frequent heavy rainfall and floods. Contrary to predictions from regional climate models, freshwater fluxes from some glacierised catchments have steadily decreased for over a decade. Yet in rainfall dominated watersheds, water discharge has been increasing. To understand the implications, we must improve hydrological research in Svalbard. Ground newly uncovered by receding glaciers develops permafrost when exposed to harsh Arctic winters. Simultaneously, permafrost thaw produces new water sources and flowpaths. Current hydrogeological models do not account for such complexity. The boundaries of the hydrological year have shifted due to earlier onset of snowmelt, and later freeze up. Other weaknesses in hydrological research come from scarcity of long-term monitoring, outdated methods and data for evaporation and condensation and a lack of data on precipitation change with elevation. As every new broken record reminds us, it is more urgent than ever to understand Svalbard’s hydrology. Report Arctic Climate change permafrost Svalbard Zenodo Arctic Svalbard |
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This is chapter 7 of the State of Environmental Science in Svalbard (SESS) report 2020 (https://sios-svalbard.org/SESS_Issue3). Svalbard was long seen as a canary in the coalmine for climate change. Now this early warning system has suffered irreparable damage. Svalbard has warmed 2-6 times faster than the rest of the world, and we can expect further increase in air temperature (by 4–7°C), precipitation (by 45–65%) and more frequent heavy rainfall and floods. Contrary to predictions from regional climate models, freshwater fluxes from some glacierised catchments have steadily decreased for over a decade. Yet in rainfall dominated watersheds, water discharge has been increasing. To understand the implications, we must improve hydrological research in Svalbard. Ground newly uncovered by receding glaciers develops permafrost when exposed to harsh Arctic winters. Simultaneously, permafrost thaw produces new water sources and flowpaths. Current hydrogeological models do not account for such complexity. The boundaries of the hydrological year have shifted due to earlier onset of snowmelt, and later freeze up. Other weaknesses in hydrological research come from scarcity of long-term monitoring, outdated methods and data for evaporation and condensation and a lack of data on precipitation change with elevation. As every new broken record reminds us, it is more urgent than ever to understand Svalbard’s hydrology. |
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Nowak, Aga Hodgkins, Richard Nikulina, Anna Osuch, Marzena Wawrzyniak, Tomasz Kavan, Jan Łepkowska, Elżbieta Majerska, Marta Romashova, Ksenia Vasilevich, Igor Sobota, Ireneusz Rachlewicz, Grzegorz |
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From land to fjords: The review of Svalbard hydrology from 1970 to 2019 (SvalHydro) |
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From land to fjords: The review of Svalbard hydrology from 1970 to 2019 (SvalHydro) |
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From land to fjords: The review of Svalbard hydrology from 1970 to 2019 (SvalHydro) |
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From land to fjords: The review of Svalbard hydrology from 1970 to 2019 (SvalHydro) |
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From land to fjords: The review of Svalbard hydrology from 1970 to 2019 (SvalHydro) |
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from land to fjords: the review of svalbard hydrology from 1970 to 2019 (svalhydro) |
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