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NRB (Northern Research Basins),
conference and workshop "Synthesis of Water Balance Data from Northern Experimental Watersheds" at Dunsmuir Lodge, Victoria, BC, Canada.
The event has been convened by March 15-19 at a Canadian great place, Dunsmuir Lodge (www.dunsmuirlodge.com) located on Victoria Island, some 50 miles from Vancouver, BC. The meeting was sponsored by National Science Foundation (NSF), Int'l Arctic Science Committee (IASC), Environment of Canada, University of Alaska Fairbanks and University of Victoria.
There have been about 35 contributors from Canada, USA, Russia, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Japan. More than 20 reports have been developed mainly about recent experimental studies. We, Russians have presented five, all about our long-term observational efforts in different regions: from north-western Russia (Valday) to far-eastern taiga (Mogot, near town of Tynda).
I think main issues, the agenda, list of participants, etc. would be accessible at the web-site of Alaska Fairbanks University, http://www.uaf.edu/water So, I would only outline impressive suggestions and prospects for the future.
As to the natural beauties, stunning views of e.g. Mt. Baker, the Vancouver Island, etc. one can see them at http://www.seetheislands.com
Several outcomes of the workshop are:
- to establish five working groups which are to sum up the knowledge and to prepare synthetic papers reviewed several topics appropriated of each group: (1) precipitation and snow cover, (2) evaporation, (3) runoff, (4) water storage, and (5) general overview.
- to reduce all the papers submitted to the meeting to some brief (about 12 pages) reports which are to be published under auspices of IAHS (Int'l Association of Hydrological Science, see at www.cig.ensmp.fr/~iahs), compiled in so-called "red book".
I have to submit one paper in co-authorship (about water balance studies at Valday), another about the boreal wetland research which is my individual contribution.
I was appointed as chairman of the 2-nd working group, so I have to put together and generalize several case studies and to compile a review paper about evaporation measurements. We, the group members, were getting together, discussing the problem (it was a true "brainstorm") and have elaborated the outline of the paper and the timetable.
Also, I was incorporated into the 1-st group as a member responsible for preparing two case studies and references about Russian experience in snow survey within small watersheds. As a part of this I should expound upon the snow cover, in particular the SWE time series.
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Welcome!
Welcome! I invite you to the site where you will dive into the Hydrosphere. This home page is to communicate with colleagues world-wide and help inquisitive students. The author is a Russian explorer, living in a small provincial town Valday (or Valdai that is the same). First I should apologize for my possible mistakes in English, but, only this language enables us to communicate and travel abroad. I think many Russians do learn English, then all the exhibited would not be as Greek to them.
First graduated in meteorology, I did my career (and earned Ph.D.) in water science so, I am able to expound upon it. There are special problems what the water science is and where it is going to. Someone thinks it still is effete. Indeed, much of up-to-date challenges are related to climate variability or to a human impact. But, maybe, the water science can generate a new approach which will contribute to a sustainable world as water is basic for life. We only have to reform the water science. We must equip it with new instruments. We should cover much of relevant issues, the climatic, environmental and social. We should not be confined within traditional framework of the doctrine that is only to study river flow and predict floods.
I think the experiments as well as the simulation models based upon experimental results, should be a focus of interest, then I shall go to tell about them. I would expound upon my projects and the digest of my old snow book, which I still continue to write during a number of years. Then I would exhibit some of the papers (likely simplified and illustrated with pictures), prospects, some of which are to invite to a co-operation and, last but not least, some educational matters stored within others. Of the papers those seemed to be useful are given largely (partially in .pdf format). I would not meet all of your needs since this is my first exercise in Web. So, browse it, criticize it (by using the script at the bottom of several pages), and come again.
Start, please, with a new popular science initiative:
"How we can affect the water cycle"? Choose either .shtml or .pdf (only 25K)
Then I would briefly inform about the current activities and recent events, while the past are displaced into the old index.
The last half-of-the-year "milestones" were:
Please, go to publications and submittals, e.g. contributed to the meetings:
- The XIV-th All-Russian Conference of the Hydro Project explorers, Solnechnogorsk, Moscow region.
- Valday-2003. The Special Session of the ROSGIDROMET Service dedicated to experimental studies.
- Cheboksary-2003. The All-Russian Seminar "Methods and Technology of the Specialized Hydro-meteorological Service for Russian Agriculture". Cheboksary. Chuvash Republic.
Look at the future aims of which we should not forget about the ECWATECH-2004, the Exhibition and Congress on Water Technology, Moscow, 1-4 June 2004.
And, for those interested in applications of the water science outcomes, I would like to expound upon my research in agricultural hydrology:
- Climatic wetness - a draft paper (.pdf) on "Estimation of Climatic Wetness by Using the Evapotranspiration Data"
- Reflections_SPCA - a .pdf formatted "Reflections on Hydrological Support of the Soil Protective Contour Agriculture"
- Snow_Management - an earlier written (.pdf) paper about our experience in the studies of snow cover and their applications to crop agriculture
I intend to continue with such a special issues of the site, probably with curt reports about the boreal wetland studies both intact and technogeneous, particular problems of the spring flow and rainfall floods, new findings in snow hydrology and the like. Greatly appreciated would be any replies on the reports such as that expectable for the "Snow Cover: What is its Future and Importance?"
Old Index.
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