Energy Balance and Hydrological Processes in an Arctic Watershed

摘要: Major efforts in recent years to understand global energy and water balances have focused attention on thermal hydrological processes high latitudes (Kane et al. 1992). One of our objectives the R4D program (Chap. 1, this Vol.) was develop a quantitative understanding Imnavait Creek watershed flows that drive them. In chapter we present monitoring data balance, evapotranspiration, precipitation, snow distribution, snowmelt, runoff, damming runoff during spring melt. We use these first budgets elucidate seasonal annual patterns; subsequently, physical process models further quantify dynamics interactions between regimes provide additional insight with regard tundra ecosystems.