2021
From land to fjords: The review of Svalbard hydrology from 1970 to 2019 (SvalHydro)
NOWAK, Aga; Richard HODGKINS; Anna NIKULINA; Marzena OSUCH; Tomasz WAWRZYNIAK et al.Základní údaje
Originální název
From land to fjords: The review of Svalbard hydrology from 1970 to 2019 (SvalHydro)
Autoři
NOWAK, Aga; Richard HODGKINS; Anna NIKULINA; Marzena OSUCH; Tomasz WAWRZYNIAK; Jan KAVAN; Elżbieta ŁEPKOWSKA; Marta MAJERSKA; Ksenia ROMASHOVA; Igor VASILEVICH; Ireneusz SOBOTA a Grzegorz RACHLEWICZ
Vydání
Longyearbyen, SESS Report 2020 – The State of Environmental Science in Svalbard – an annual report, od s. 176-201, 26 s. 2021
Nakladatel
Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System (SIOS)
Další údaje
Jazyk
angličtina
Typ výsledku
Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize
Obor
10501 Hydrology
Stát vydavatele
Norsko
Utajení
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
Forma vydání
tištěná verze "print"
Odkazy
Označené pro přenos do RIV
Ano
Kód RIV
RIV/00216224:14310/21:00122818
Organizační jednotka
Přírodovědecká fakulta
ISBN
978-82-691528-9-0
Klíčová slova anglicky
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
Štítky
Příznaky
Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno
Změněno: 12. 11. 2021 12:08, Mgr. Marie Novosadová Šípková, DiS.
Anotace
V originále
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 Other weaknesses in hydrological research come from scarcity of long-term monitoring, outdated methods and data for evaporation and condensation and a lack of data on precipitation change with elevation.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.