C 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.