Arctic-Hycos: The Arctic Hydrological Cycle Observing System [PDF Flyer]
The Arctic-HYCOS is envisaged as a core network for monitoring of the Arctic Hydrological Cycle (AHC) and will serve as a key component within the IPY endorsed project Arctic HYDRA: The Arctic Hydrological Cycle Monitoring, Modelling and Assessment Program. Arctic HYCOS will provide an important benchmark for understanding future changes to the AHC through:
- Operation of regional observing networks and hydrological information systems
- Improvement of methods for hydrological computations and forecasting in poorly gauged basins, thereby contributing to solving scientific as well as applied problems
- Facilitation of international cooperation in studying and assessing hydrological processes in the Arctic.
Arctic Freshwater Systems: Hydrology and Ecology (Canadian IPY Project)
Multi scale observations of key hydrological/cold regions processes/parameters affecting freshwater flux to the Arctic Ocean: Freshwater Flux and Prediction, Nutrient Flux and Prediction, Aquatic Ecosystem Hydro-ecology and Ecological Integrity. Contact: Alan Pietroniro, Environment Canada.
http://www.ec.gc.ca/api-ipy/default.asp?lang=En&n=632E1B7D-1
Climate Change Sound Water Management, Water and Ice Conditions of Large Arctic Rivers.
Development of water management facilities adaptation strategy.
Contact: Valery Vuglinsky/Vladimir Gruzinov, State Hydrological Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Hydrological Cycle in the Arctic Region (HydroArctic)
This research program focuses on the Eurasian cryosphere region. The objective is to understand the state and changes of the water and energy cycles in relation to atmospheric conditions and river discharge. In addition to long-term observations at selected locations, the program will involve modeling and sensitivity experiments.
Contact: Tetsuo Ohata, JAMSTEC, Japan
http://www.jamstec.go.jp/iorgc/hcorp/index-e.html
Impacts of Climate Change on Hydrological Processes in the Norwegian Arctic [PDF Flyer]
Due to the sparse station network in the Arctic, hydrological models that describe the water balance of the land surface are necessary for determining the impacts of climate on land surface hydrological processes. A spatially distributed hydrological model has been tailored to water balance simulations in Arctic environments.
Contact: Stein Beldring, Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate, Oslo, Norway
Kuparuk River Watershed: Long Term Hydrologic Observatory, North Slope Alaska [PDF Flyer]
Hydrologic studies, initiated on the North Slope of Alaska in 1992; include field research and modeling studies of the Kuparuk River basin and contributing watersheds.
Contact: Douglas Kane, Water and Environmental Research Center, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
http://www.uaf.edu/water/projects/NorthSlope/northslope.html
http://arcticchamp.sr.unh.edu/
Pan-Arctic Glacier-Water-Biogeochemical System Response [PDF Flyer]
Hydrologic responses in permafrost/snow/glacier affected basins under a warming climate;pan-Arctic soil carbon remobilization and water-borne transport under a warming climate;scale-transformation of above land-surface flux dynamics, from local processes to Pan-Arctic Scales.Contact: Gia Destouni, Stockholm University, Sweden
http://www.bbcc.su.se/cryospheric/5.2.6-pan-arctic-hydrological-and-biogeochemical.html
Pan-Arctic hydrological and biochemical responses to climate change [PDF Flyer]
There is mounting evidence that the Arctic water cycle may today be experiencing an unprecedented degree of environmental change, including increasing discharges of major rivers into the Arctic Ocean, which also feed large quantities of waterborne substances from land to sea. With the Arctic experiencing relatively large climate change effects, the effects on river discharges also modulate erosion and nutrient release, and associated downstream sediment and solute transport, which affects the biogeochemistry of inland waters as well as of the recipient Arctic Ocean. Increases in freshwater transport to the Arctic Ocean may further play an important role for the planetary redistribution of moisture and capacity to form North Atlantic Deep Water, which may result in major shift in the global ocean circulation and temporary slowdown in poleward atmospheric heat transport. Contact: Arvid Bring, Stockholm University, Sweden
Research Basins in Greenland [PDF Flyer]
Studies in research basins in Greenland include meteorological observations, glacier mass balance studies, hydrological modeling and monitoring of sediment transport. Specific basins include the Mittivakkat glacier catchment on Ammassalik Island and the Zackenberg River drainage basin, both in East Greenland.
Contact: Bent Hasholt, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Recent and future variability in the freshwater budget of Southern Greenland
Recent and future variability in the freshwater budget of Southern-Greenland: An integrated modelling approach.
Contact: Jens Hesselbjerg, Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen
Sediment Hydrological cycle in the Arctic Region
Estimating the present and past flux of sediment-bound chemical elements and compounds from land into the marine environment of the polar basin, by combining available monitoring data and estimates for ungauged areas.
Contact: Jim Bogen, Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate, Oslo
TULeVAT: The future of floods in Finland with special reference to Tana River
Analyzes overbank sediment of floodplains and deltas. Estimates the modern and historical fluxes of sediment-associated chemical elements; determines patterns in the distribution of chemical elements in regions and impact of man-induced changes on sediment sources and sediment flux; predicts the impact of future climate changes on the fluxes.
Contact: Jukka Käyhkö, University of Turku, Finland