Open AccessPhysical Processes and Regularities Concerning the Volga River Basin Rivers Winter and Spring Runoff Formation in the Conditions of Climate Change
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
vodnoe hozâjstvo rossii: problemy, tehnologii, upravlenie/vodnoe hozâjstvo rossii : problemy, tehnologii, upravlenie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2686-8253
pISSN - 1999-4508
DOI - 10.35567/1999-4508-2012-4-7
Subject(s) - surface runoff , spring (device) , hydrology (agriculture) , environmental science , structural basin , climate change , frost (temperature) , drainage basin , volga region , physical geography , geology , geography , geomorphology , ecology , oceanography , mechanical engineering , history , ethnology , geotechnical engineering , cartography , engineering , biology
On the basis of the years-long observations summing-up a mechanism of the climate change impact on the Volga basin rivers winter and spring runoff has been revealed. It has been stated that the major factors affecting the winter rivers’ runoff increase over the past decades are the following: average daily air temperature increase; frost penetration into soil and winter moisture migration to the frosty penetration front decrease; increase of fall runoff; as well as increase of the winter thaws number.