New Publication Available
"Northern Research Basins Water Balance"
Edited By: Douglas L. Kane and Daqing Yang
International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS)
IAHS Publication #290, ISBN: 1-901502-82-1
Price: 58.50 UK Pounds
Please send book orders and enquiries to:
Mrs. Jill Gash
IAHS Press, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
E-mail: jilly [at] iahs.demon.co.uk
In the mid-1970s, hydrologists from circumpolar countries established
the Northern Research Basins (NRB) group which has since organized
meetings every 2-3 years. A working group of NRB on water balance
organized a workshop in March 2004 for the purpose of collecting and
synthesizing water balance data for northern experimental research
basins, and this publication is the outcome.
The extreme environment, low population, and logistical costs often
frustrate efforts to enhance hydrological understanding of the high
latitude regions of the world. However, insights into hydrological
processes there have been gained by compiling existing water balance
data sets. Results from 39 research watersheds in the USA, Canada,
Japan, Russia, Norway, Greenland, and Finland are collected in "Northern
Research Basins Water Balance", with three contributions that highlight
some of the significant problems in producing quality water balance
results. An overview synthesizes all the information amounting to water
balance data for over 500 basin years, distributed temporally from 1958
to the present. The considerable amount of information provided and
discussed will serve as a benchmark for future work in high latitude
regions.
Abstracts of the papers in "Northern Research Basins Water Balance" are
available online at:
http://www.iahs.info
Please send book orders and enquiries to:
Mrs. Jill Gash
IAHS Press, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
Wallingford, Oxfordshire OX10 8BB
United Kingdom
E-mail: jilly [at] iahs.demon.co.uk
Phone: +44 1491 692442
Fax: +44 1491 692448/692424
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