Warming temperatures are impacting the hydrometeorological regime of Russian rivers in the zone of continuous permafrost

Makarieva, Olga; Nesterova, Nataliia; Post, David Andrew; Sherstyukov, Artem; Lebedeva, Lyudmila

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-1635-2019

Articles | Volume 13, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-1635-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-1635-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 6

Research article

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14 Jun 2019

Research article |

| 14 Jun 2019

Warming temperatures are impacting the hydrometeorological regime of Russian rivers in the zone of continuous permafrost

Olga Makarieva, Nataliia Nesterova, David Andrew Post, Artem Sherstyukov, and Lyudmila Lebedeva

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-1635-2019-supplement

Data sets

Monthly hydro-climate database for the Yana and Indigirka Rivers basins, Northern Eurasia O. Makarieva, N. Nesterova, and A. Sherstyukov https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.892775

Short summary

The streamflow of Arctic rivers is changing. We analyzed available data (22 gauges, 1936–2015) in the basins of the Yana and Indigirka rivers completely located within the continuous permafrost zone. The results show that the main factor of increasing low flows is the shift from snow to rain due to warming. Other factors related to the release of water from permafrost, glaciers, or aufeis may fractionally contribute to streamflow increase but cannot be quantified based on available data.