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 this volume, with three contributions that highlight some of the problems in producing quality water balance results.
An overview synthesizes all the information which amounts to water balance data for over 500 basin-years, distributed temporally from 1958 to the present. The considerable amount of information provided will serve as a bench¬mark for future work in high latitude regions.
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