Estimating the water balance of a thermokarst lake in the middle of the Lena River basin, eastern Siberia

Ecohydrology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 188-196

  Fedorov, A N ^a,e   Gavriliev, P P ^a   Konstantinov, P Y ^a   Hiyama, T ^b   Iijima, Y ^c   Iwahana, G ^d  

^a MELNIKOV PERMAFROST INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITY AND NATURE   (Japan)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^e NORTH EASTERN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Ground ice; Permafrost; Thermokarst; Water balance

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CRYOGENICS; CULTIVATION; ECOLOGY; LAKES; PERMAFROST; SOIL MOISTURE; WATERSHEDS;

GROUND ICE; LONG-TERM OBSERVATIONS; PERMAFROST DEGRADATION; POTENTIAL EVAPORATION; SURROUNDING ENVIRONMENT; THERMOKARST; WATER BALANCE; WATER BALANCE ESTIMATION;

ESTIMATION;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; ESTIMATION METHOD; KARST HYDROLOGY; LAKE WATER; MOISTURE CONTENT; PERMAFROST; SOIL MOISTURE; THAWING; THERMOKARST; WATER BUDGET;

LENA BASIN; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAKHA; YAKUTSK;

EID: 84897559980     PISSN: 19360584     EISSN: 19360592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eco.1378     Document Type: Article

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