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An Integrated Assessment of the
Pan-Arctic Freshwater System:
Analysis of Retrospective and
Contemporary Conditions
Vorosmarty
Lammers
Serreze
Steele
Zhang
- UNH
- UNH
- UC
- UW
- UW
Arctic-RIMS: A Regional, Integrated
Monitoring System for Pan-Arctic
Water Cycle Studies
GOALS
– Characterize Variability in
Land-Atmosphere Water
System (from 1960-)
– Assess Response of Ocean
– Identify Sources of Change
– Develop Real-Time D Detection
System for
Pan-Arctic Water Cycle
Collaboration of UNH, CU,
UW, JPL, SHI, AARI, Ohio St., UDel
Framework for the Enhanced ArcticRIMS Data
and Model Integration System
“Tracking the Water”
E-RIMS FRAMEWORK FOR COUPLED PAN-ARCTIC
LAND-OCEAN-ATMOSPHIRE STUDIES
R-ArcticNET
ArcticRIMS
River Discharge
Source data: Mark Serreze (CU), Mike Steele (UW), UNH, and government agencies from around the pan-Arctic
E-RIMS DATA SYSTEM
• Coordinated Geospatial
Data Sets
• On-screen Roving
• Data Mining Tool
• Multi-Dimensional
Queries
• Archival, Real-Time
Station Data and Gridded
Fields
• Web-based w/ On-line
Data Downloads
E-RIMS REAL-TIME
HYDROGRAPHS
• Collaboration of several agencies
• Mouth of river emphasized for
land-ocean flux studies
• Provisional data w/ reanalysis
Real-Time River Discharge Monitoring
Russian Data Flow to the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI)
• Critical but Uncertain Pathway: Atmospheric
• Net Convergence on Land Dominates
• Budget Closure Disparity Large
-- Land
1700 km3 y-1
-- Ocean 2800 km3 y-1