LENA BASIN: RUSSIA GRACE: TRACKING WATER FROM SPACE
Maps
Lena river basin watershed. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/Lena_watershed.png
Videos
Interesting Video Blog that shows the rugged and isolated reality of the Lena region. http://askyakutia.com/2009/12/video-long-way-round-road-of-bones-episode/
ARTICLES
As Polar Ice Turns to Water, Dreams of Treasure Abound http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/10/science/10arctic.html?pagewanted=print
WEBSITES
Lena River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The total length of the river is estimated at 4400 km (2800 mi). The area of the Lena river basin is calculated at 2490000 square kilometres … http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lena_River
The Lena River runs horizontally across the left side of this image, forming an immense delta by its mouth in Sakha Republic, in the far north of eastern Siberia, Russia. The Lena empties into the Laptev Sea, which is mostly covered in ice, here. http://www.eosnap.com/?s=lena+river
Fires continue to burn near the Lena Delta and the Laptev Sea in Siberia, in Russia’s Sakha Republic. The Siberian fire season generally begins towards the end of June, so the two blazes here, in the lower left quadrant, are not out of the ordinary. http://www.eosnap.com/?tag=lena-delta
Photo blog showing amazing pictures of this vast untouched region of the Lena river basin. http://askyakutia.com/2009/12/is-there-an-ice-road-to-lena-pillars/
The images were made with both infrared and visible light show flooding over a 3 week period on the Lena river basin. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=18428
Web site that depicts flooding around the world from 1985 to present time. There seems to be an increase in frequency and amplitude of flooding. http://www.dartmouth.edu/~floods/
SCIENTIFIC PAPERS
ARI: Climate Driven Destabilization of Arctic Watersheds and a New Reactivity Paradigm for Carbon Cycling in Arctic Rivers The Arctic Ocean is a semi-enclosed basin surrounded by immense watersheds that drain the polar and sub-polar regions of Eurasia and North America. Climate change is both impacting the functioning of the Arctic hydrological cycle and altering feedbacks from the Arctic to the global climate system. http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=16900&tid=282&cid=30929
Number 23, December 1999 - FROZEN GROUND File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Quick View The News Bulletin of the. International Permafrost Association. Number 23, December 1999. FROZEN GROUND. 2. Executive Committee Report ... ipa.arcticportal.org/files/fg/FrozenGround23.pdf - Iceland