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| H16: | Hydroclimatology of Large Northern Watersheds: From Surface Observation, Remote Sensing, to Modeling |
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Hydrology
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| CoSponsor: |
Atmospheric Sciences Biogeosciences Cryosphere |
| Convener: |
Daqing Yang CliC International Project Office and UAF Trosmo, NOR ffdy@uaf.edu Larry Hinzman Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks USA lhinzman@iarc.uaf.edu |
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| Description: | Northern rivers are important to the global climate system, as they transport large amount of freshwater and sediment into the oceans. Our knowledge of the basic aspect of northern basin hydroclimatology, such as seasonal cycles and space-time variability of precipitation, snowcover, soil moisture, evaportranspiration, and their links with streamflow, has improved over last several years through national and international research projects. This session reviews and synthesizes our current understanding of major hydro-climatic features of the large northern rivers. The focus is to define the fundamental characteristics of large-scale hydroclimatology through analyses of long-term in-situ observations, remote sensing and numerical model outputs, and to examine their variations and changes over space and time. This session invites review presentations by research groups and operational agencies to cover the major northern rivers, and welcomes contributions on a wide range of relevant topics dealing with cold region climate and hydrology over the arctic regions. |