TY - JOUR

T1 - Water balance and hydrology research in a mountainous permafrost watershed in upland streams of the Kolyma River, Russia

T2 - A database from the Kolyma Water-Balance Station, 1948-1997

AU - Makarieva, Olga

AU - Nesterova, Nataliia

AU - Lebedeva, Lyudmila

AU - Sushansky, Sergey

PY - 2018/4/4

Y1 - 2018/4/4

N2 - In 2018, 70 years have passed since the beginning of observations at the Kolyma Water-Balance Station (KWBS), a unique scientific research hydrological and permafrost catchment. The volume and duration (50 continuous years) of hydrometeorological standard and experimental data, characterizing the natural conditions and processes occurring in mountainous permafrost conditions, significantly exceed any counterparts elsewhere in the world. The data are representative of mountainous territory of the North-East of Russia. In 1997, the station was terminated, thereby leaving Russia without operating research watersheds in the permafrost zone. This paper describes the dataset containing the series of daily runoff from 10 watersheds with an area from 0.27 to 21.3ĝ€km2, precipitation, meteorological observations, evaporation from soil and snow, snow surveys, soil thaw and freeze depths, and soil temperature for the period 1948-1997. It also highlights the main historical stages of the station's existence, its work and scientific significance, and outlines the prospects for its future, where the Kolyma Water-Balance Station could be restored to the status of a scientific research watershed and become a valuable international centre for hydrological research in permafrost. The data are available at https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.881731.

AB - In 2018, 70 years have passed since the beginning of observations at the Kolyma Water-Balance Station (KWBS), a unique scientific research hydrological and permafrost catchment. The volume and duration (50 continuous years) of hydrometeorological standard and experimental data, characterizing the natural conditions and processes occurring in mountainous permafrost conditions, significantly exceed any counterparts elsewhere in the world. The data are representative of mountainous territory of the North-East of Russia. In 1997, the station was terminated, thereby leaving Russia without operating research watersheds in the permafrost zone. This paper describes the dataset containing the series of daily runoff from 10 watersheds with an area from 0.27 to 21.3ĝ€km2, precipitation, meteorological observations, evaporation from soil and snow, snow surveys, soil thaw and freeze depths, and soil temperature for the period 1948-1997. It also highlights the main historical stages of the station's existence, its work and scientific significance, and outlines the prospects for its future, where the Kolyma Water-Balance Station could be restored to the status of a scientific research watershed and become a valuable international centre for hydrological research in permafrost. The data are available at https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.881731.

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UR - http://www.mendeley.com/research/water-balance-hydrology-research-mountainous-permafrost-watershed-upland-streams-kolyma-river-russia

U2 - 10.5194/essd-10-689-2018

DO - 10.5194/essd-10-689-2018

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85044995949

VL - 10

SP - 689

EP - 710

JO - Earth System Science Data

JF - Earth System Science Data

SN - 1866-3508

IS - 2

ER -