Paper Info
Title
Role of sublimation and evapotranspiration in the continental-scale Lena River basin, Eastern Siberia
Abstract
The Lena River basin in Siberia produces one of the largest river inflows into the Arctic Ocean. One of the most important sources of runoff to the river is spring snowmelt, and therefore, snow ablation processes have great importance for this basin. Vegetation and accumulated snowfall control the spatial distribution of sublimation, which is found to have a considerable effect on the snow ablation. We found that the ratio of sublimation to snowfall in forests is around 26% and that interannual variation of sublimation modulates the spring river runoff. We also revealed a negative trend in TWS in the downstream portion of the Lena River basin, which may be explained by increasing evapotranspiration associated with warming summer air temperatures.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/IGARSS.2016.7729052
2016 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Permafrost,Watershed,Snow ablation,Terrestrial Water Storage
Sea surface temperature,Drainage basin,Computer science,Hydrology,Surface runoff,Snowmelt,Evapotranspiration,Arctic,Structural basin,Snow
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2153-6996
978-1-5090-3333-1
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kazuyoshi Suzuki100.68