Hydrology Category

List of Active NEESPI Projects:

  1. Collaborative Research: Interactions between air temperature, permafrost and hydrology in the high latitudes of Eurasia.
  2. Structure and climatic changes of extreme precipitation over Europe and North America: Processes, risks, and predictability.
  3. The nature of extreme precipitation over Europe and North America.
  4. Formulating and Evaluating Water Resources Adaptation Options to Climate Change Uncertainty in the Carpathian Region.
  5. International Water Research Alliance Saxony (IWAS) - model region Eastern Europe.
  6. In situ Precipitation Dataset in High Latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere for Calibration of GPM Mission Products .
  7. Impacts of Land Cover and Land Use Change on Water and Energy Cycle in Caspian Sea Drainage Basin.
  8. Assimilation of tower and satellite-based methane observations for improved estimation of methane fluxes over northern Eurasia.
  9. Investigating the Relationship Between Land Use/Land Cover Change, Hydrologic Cycle, and Climate in Semi-Arid Central Asia.
  10. Spatial and Temporal Scales and Mechanisms of Extreme Precipitation Events over Central Europe (STAMMEX).
  11. Global Warming and Human-Nature dimension in Siberia. The social adaptation to the changes of terrestrial ecosystem with the emphasis on water environment.
  12. Northern Eurasian Landscapes: Interactions Between Humans, Hydrology, Land Cover and Land Use.
  13. Collaborative Research: Diagnosis of Changes in Alpine Water Storages and Land Surface Degradation in Pamir Mountains and Amu Dariya River Basin.
  14. Collaborative research: Humans and hydrology at high latitudes.
  15. Spatial Variations in recent climate variations in seasonal climate of Inner Mongolia.
  16. Precipitation intensity over the northern extratropics.
  17. Integrated interdisciplinary research on ecological and economic problems in the Aral Sea region of Uzbekistan.
  18. Study of hydrological and ecological processes in Siberian water bodies and development of scientific basis for water use and water resources protection (taking into account anthropogenic factor and climate change).
  19. Comparative analysis of patterns of man-caused radionuclides migration in large water ecosystems of Siberia, the Urals and Ukraine by the example of the river Yenisei, Ob’-Irtysh river system and water reservoirs of Chernobyl restricted zone.
  20. Study of Dam/Reservoir-Induced Hydrologic Changes in Large Siberian Watersheds: Regional Analysis to Pan-Arctic Synthesis.
  21. Collaborative Research: Understanding Change in the Climate and Hydrology of the Arctic Land Region: Synthesizing the Results of the ARCSS Fresh Water Initiative Projects.
  22. The Eurasian fresh water cycle from GRACE and in-situ hydrological networks: distinguishing water cycle behavior in permafrost and non-permafrost regions.
  23. The Largest River Systems of Northern Eurasia: Hydrological State during Warm Climatic Epochs in Past, Present and Future.
  24. Permafrost dynamics within the Northern Eurasia region and related impacts on surface and sub-surface hydrology.
  25. Continuous fields of snow cover characteristics derived through coupling satellite data with snowpack model. Application in the river runoff modeling over NEESPI domain.
  26. Current climate changes over Eastern Siberia and their impact on permafrost landscapes, ecosystem dynamics, and hydrological regime.
  27. An integrated understanding of the terrestrial water and energy cycles across the NEESPI domain through observations and modeling.
  28. Land cover land use change effects on surface water quality: Integrated MODIS and SeaWIFS assessment of the Dneiper and Don River basins and their reservoirs.
  29. Role of land cover and land use change in hydrology of Eurasian Pan-Arctic.
  30. Evaluation and Development of the Land Data Assimilation System (LDAS) Using Observations.
  31. Contributions of Changes in Land Use/Land Cover, Water Use, and Climate to the Hydrological Cycle Across the Central Asian States.
  32. Exacerbation of Flooding Responses Due to Land Cover/Land Use Change: A Comparative Study.
  33. Evaluating the effects of institutional change on regional hydrometeorology: Assessing the vulnerability of the Eurasian semi-arid grain belt.
  34. Global Distribution of Human Appropriation of Fresh Water: An Earth Observation-supported Strategy Linking Biophysics and Socio-economics for Addressing Water Vulnerability.
  35. Effects of Land Use Change on the Energy and Water Balance of the Semi-Arid Region of Inner Mongolia.
  36. Estimation of seasonal snow cover and glacial area changes in central Asia (Tien Shan) during the last 50 years using NASA ESE products and in-situ data.
  37. Extreme precipitation events: their origins, predictability and societal impacts.
  38. Influence of snow vertical structure on hydrothermal regime and snow-related economical aspects in Northern Eurasia.
  39. Snow cover changes over Northern Eurasia during the last Century: Circulation consideration and hydrological consequences (SCCONE).
  40. Representativeness of estimates of changes in weather extremes.
  41. Diagnosis and Prognosis of Changes in Lake and Wetland Extent on the Regional Carbon Balance of Northern Eurasia.

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Study of Dam/Reservoir-Induced Hydrologic Changes in Large Siberian Watersheds: Regional Analysis to Pan-Arctic Synthesis.

Principal Investigator: Alexander Shiklomanov (Alex.Shiklomanov@unh.edu), University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
Co-Investigators: Richard Lammers, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
Collaborators: Vladimir Georgievsky and Igor Shiklomanov, State Hydrological Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia

Collaborative Research: Understanding Change in the Climate and Hydrology of the Arctic Land Region: Synthesizing the Results of the ARCSS Fresh Water Initiative Projects.

Principal Investigators: Eric Wood (efwood@princeton.edu), Princeton University, Princeton, USA; Charles Vorosmarty (Charles.Vorosmarty@unh.edu), University of New Hampshire, Durham, USA; John Cassano (cassano@cires.colorado.edu ), University of Colorado, Boulder, USA; Dennis Lettenmaier (dennisl@washington.edu), University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Co-Investigator: Richard Lammers, University of New Hampshire, Durham, USA
Collaborators: Larry Hinzman, Igor Semiletov, Daquing Yang, and Doug Kane, University of Alaska – Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
Glen Liston, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA
Mark Serreze and Tingjun Zhang, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Laurence Smith, University of California-Los Angeles, Los-Angeles, USA
Tony England, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Marika Holland, NCAR, Boulder, USA
Amanda Lynch, Monash University, Clayton, Australia
Andrew Weaver, University of Victoria, Canada
Alexander Oltchev, Institute of Ecology and Evolution Problems of RAS, Moscow, Russia

The Eurasian fresh water cycle from GRACE and in-situ hydrological networks: distinguishing water cycle behavior in permafrost and non-permafrost regions.

Principal Investigator: Isabella Velikogna (Isabella@colorado.edu), University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Collaborator: Laurence Smith, University of California-Los Angeles, USA

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The Largest River Systems of Northern Eurasia: Hydrological State during Warm Climatic Epochs in Past, Present and Future.

Principal Investigator: Alexander Georgiadi (galex@online.ru), Institute of Geography, RAS, Moscow, Russia
Co-investigators: Yurii G.Motovilov, State Institute on Applied Ecology MNR of Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia
Irina P. Milyukova, Nikolai I. Koronkevich, and Elena A. Kashutina, all at Institute of Geography,
Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Alexander V. Kislov, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Collaborators: Larry Hinzmann, Water and Environmental Research Center Institute of Northern Engineering, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, USA
Tetsuo Ohata, Institute of Observational Research for Global Change (IORGC) Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokosuka, Japan

Permafrost dynamics within the Northern Eurasia region and related impacts on surface and sub-surface hydrology.

Principal Investigator: Vladimir Romanovsky (ffver@uaf.edu) University of Alaska-Fairbanks, USA
Co-Investigator: Claude Duguay, University of Alaska-Fairbanks, USA
Collaborators: John Walsh and Igor Semiletov, both at University of Alaska-Fairbanks, USA
Mikhail Zheleznyak, RAS Permafrost Institute, Yakutsk, Russia
Vyacheslav Razuvaev, Research Institute for Hydrometeorological Information, Obninsk, Russia
Jens Christensen, Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark

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Continuous fields of snow cover characteristics derived through coupling satellite data with snowpack model. Application in the river runoff modeling over NEESPI domain.

Principal Investigator: Peter Romanov (Peter.Romanov@noaa.gov) University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
Co-Investigator: Dan Tarpley, NOAA Office of Research and Applications, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
Collaborator: Lev Kuchment, RAS Institute of Water Problems, Moscow, Russia

Current climate changes over Eastern Siberia and their impact on permafrost landscapes, ecosystem dynamics, and hydrological regime.

Principal Investigator: Larry Hinzman (ffldh@uaf.edu) University of Alaska-Fairbanks, USA
Co-Investigator: Kenji Yoshikawa and Vladimir Romanovsky both at University of Alaska-Fairbanks, USA
Collaborators: Nikolai Romanovsky, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Aleksander Georgiadi, RAS Institute of Geography, Moscow, Russia

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An integrated understanding of the terrestrial water and energy cycles across the NEESPI domain through observations and modeling.

Principal Investigator: Eric Wood (efwood@princeton.edu) Princeton University, New Jersey, USA
Co-Investigators: Laura Bowling, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
Alexander Oltchev, Institute of Ecology and Evolution Problems of RAS, Moscow, Russia
Collaborators: Andrey Sogachev, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Julia Kurbatova and Andrey Varlagin, both at Institute of Ecology and Evolution Problems of RAS, Moscow, Russia
Natalia Vygodskaya, Jan Kochanowski University ,Kielce, Poland
Nadezhda Tchebakova, RAS Institute of Forest, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Nina Speranskaya, Natalia Lemeshko, and Kirill Tsytsenko, All at State Hydrological Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
Oleg Panferov, Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany

Land cover land use change effects on surface water quality: Integrated MODIS and SeaWIFS assessment of the Dneiper and Don River basins and their reservoirs.

Principal Investigator: Anatoly Gitelson (gitelson@calmit.unl.edu), University of Nebraska - Lincoln, USA
Co-Investigator: Geoffrey M. Henebry, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, USA
Collaborators: Ludmila Kosmenko and Boris Suhorukov, Hydro-chemical Institute, Rostov-on-Don, Russia
Michael Popov and Ludmila Serenko, Centre for Aerospace Research of the Earth, Institute of Geosciences UNAS, Kiev, Ukraine
Mykola Zalogin, Institute of Sustainable Development of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine

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Role of land cover and land use change in hydrology of Eurasian Pan-Arctic.

Principal Investigator: Charles Vorosmarty (Charles.Vorosmarty@unh.edu), University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
Co-Investigators: George Hurtt, Xianming Xiao, Richard Lammers, and Alexander Shiklomanov, all at University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
Collaborator: Igor Shiklomanov, State Hydrological Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia

Evaluation and Development of the Land Data Assimilation System (LDAS) Using Observations.

Principal Investigator: Alan Robock (robock@envsci.rutgers.edu), Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Co-Investigators: Konstantin Y. Vinnikov, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
Nina Speranskaya, State Hydrological Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
Irina V.Trofimova, Institute of Telecommunications of the UAS, Kiev, Ukraine
Tatiana I. Adamenko, Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Centre, Kiev, Ukraine
Suxia Liu and Xingguo Mo, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Erdenetsetseg Divaa, National Agency of Meteorology, Hydrology, and Environment Monitoring, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

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Contributions of Changes in Land Use/Land Cover, Water Use, and Climate to the Hydrological Cycle Across the Central Asian States.

Principal Investigator: Charles Vörösmarty (charles.vorosmarty@unh.edu), Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire, USA
Co-Investigators: Richard Lammers, Alexander Shiklomanov, Ellen Douglas, and Xiangming Xiao,University of New Hampshire, USA
Collaborators: Igor Shiklomanov State Hydrological Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
Victor Dukhovny, Scientific-Information Center of the Interstate Coordination Water Commission of the Central Asia, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Malik Burlibaev, Kazakhstan Research Institute for Monitoring and Climate, Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan

Exacerbation of Flooding Responses Due to Land Cover/Land Use Change: A Comparative Study.

Principal Investigator: Keith Eshleman, (eshleman@al.umces.edu), University of Maryland, USA
Co-Investigators: Philip Townsend, University of Maryland, USA
Mykola Zalogin, (mzalogin@yahoo.com), Institute of Sustainable Development of Ukraine, Ukraine

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Evaluating the effects of institutional change on regional hydrometeorology: Assessing the vulnerability of the Eurasian semi-arid grain belt.

Principal Investigator: Geoff Henebry (Geoffrey.Henebry@sdstate.edu), South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, USA
Co-Investigators: Elena Lioubimtseva, Grand Valley State University, USA
William Capehart, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, USA
Collaborators: Lev Spivak, Remote Sensing Center, Space Research Institute, Ministry of Education and Science, Kazakhstan
Alexander N. Zolotokrylin, Geography Institute, Russian Academy of Science, Russia

Global Distribution of Human Appropriation of Fresh Water: An Earth Observation-supported Strategy Linking Biophysics and Socio-economics for Addressing Water Vulnerability.

Principal Investigator: Marc Imhoff (Marc.L.Imhoff@nasa.gov), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
Co-Investigators: Lahouari Bounoua, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, UMD, USA
Michael Glantz, Institute for the Study of Society and Environment, National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA
Bob Harris, Environmental and Societal Impact Group, National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA

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Effects of Land Use Change on the Energy and Water Balance of the Semi-Arid Region of Inner Mongolia.

Principal Investigator: Jiquan Chen (jiquan.chen@utoledo.edu), University of Toledo, USA
Co-Investigators: Asko Noormets, Univ. of Toledo, USA
Steve McNulty & Ge Sun, Southern Global Change Program, USA
Weixin Cheng, Univ. of California - Santa Cruz, USA
Guanghui Lin, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Yanfen Wang, The Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Xiangming Xiao, University of New Hampshire, USA
Collaborators: Prof. Jiaguo Qi, Michigan State University, USA
Dennis Ojima & Dr. Scott Denning, Colorado State University, USA
Osbert Sun, Xingguo Han, Dr. Linhao Li, and Dr. Ke Guo, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Ming Xu, Rutgers University, USA
Stable Isotope Laboratory for Ecological & Environmental Research at Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, China

Estimation of seasonal snow cover and glacial area changes in central Asia (Tien Shan) during the last 50 years using NASA ESE products and in-situ data.

Principal Investigator: Vladimir Aizen, (aizen@uidaho.edu), University of Idaho, USA
Co-Investigator: Elena Aizen, University of Idaho, USA
Siri Jodha S. Khalsa, National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado, USA
Collaborator: Valeriy Kuzmichenok, Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower, National Academy of Science, Kyrgyz Republic

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Extreme precipitation events: their origins, predictability and societal impacts.

Principal investigators: Clemens Simmer, Meteorological Institute, University of Bonn (csimmer@uni-bonn.de) and Sergey Gulev, P.P. Shirshov Instititute of Oceanology, Russia (gul@sail.msk.ru)
Co-Investigators: Alexander Gershunov, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA
Sergey Ivanov, Odessa State Ecological University, Odessa, Ukraine

Influence of snow vertical structure on hydrothermal regime and snow-related economical aspects in Northern Eurasia.

Principal Investigators: Andrey Shmakin (climate@igras.geonet.ru), Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Meinhard Breiling (meinhard.breiling@tuwien.ac.at), Technical University Vienna, Department for Landscape Planning, Vienna, Austria
Co-Investigators: Marcia Phillips, Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research, Davos, Switzerland
Konstantin Rubinstein, The Hydrometeorological Centre of Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia
Vladimir Golubev, Moscow State University, Faculty of Geography, Moscow, Russia
Maxim Petrov, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Zdeno Kosta, Institute of Hydrology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Liptovsky Mikulas, Slovakia

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Snow cover changes over Northern Eurasia during the last Century: Circulation consideration and hydrological consequences (SCCONE).

Principal Investigator: Raino Heino, (Raino.Heino@fmi.fi) Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland
Co-Investigators: Eiric Førland, Norwegian Hydrometeorological Institute, Norway
Lev Kitaev, RAS Institute of Geography, Russia
Aleksander N. Krenke, RAS Institute of Geography, Russia
Vycheslav N. Razuvaev, Research Institute of Hydrometeorological Information, Russia

Representativeness of estimates of changes in weather extremes.

Principal Investigator: Pavel Ya. Groisman (Pasha.Groisman@noaa.gov), University Corporation for Atmospheric Research at NOAA/NESDIS/ National Climatic Data Center, USA
Co-Investigators: David R. Easterling, NOAA National Climatic Data Center, USA
Vyacheslav N. Razuvaev Research Institute of Hydrometeorological Information, Russia
Vladimir K. Petukhov, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany
Collaborators: Xuebin Zhang, Climate Research Unit, Meteorological Service of Canada
Gabriele Hegerl, Duke University, USA

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Diagnosis and Prognosis of Changes in Lake and Wetland Extent on the Regional Carbon Balance of Northern Eurasia.

Principal Investigator: Dennis Lettenmaier (dennisl@washington.edu), University of Washington, USA
Co-Investigators: Laura Bowling, Purdue University, USA
Kyle McDonald, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
Collaborators: Nina A. Speranskaya and Kirill V. Tsitsenko State Hydrological Institute, Russia
Daniil Kozlov and Yury N. Bochkarev, Moscow State University, Russia
Reiner Schnur, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
Martin Heimann, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
Gianfranco De Grandi, Joint Research Centre, Italy

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Study of hydrological and ecological processes in Siberian water bodies and development of scientific basis for water use and water resources protection (taking into account anthropogenic factor and climate change)     Member of SIRS Mega-project.

Principal Investigator: Oleg F. Vasiliev (vasiliev@ad-sbras.nsc.ru), Novosibirsk Branch Institute for Water and Environmental Problems, SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia.

Comparative analysis of patterns of man-caused radionuclides migration in large water ecosystems of Siberia, the Urals and Ukraine by the example of the river Yenisei, Ob’-Irtysh river system and water reservoirs of Chernobyl restricted zone     Member of SIRS Mega-project.

Principal Investigator: Andrey G. Degermendzhi (ibp@ibp.ru), Institute of Biophysics SB RAS, Krasnoyarsk, Russia.

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Integrated interdisciplinary research on ecological and economic problems in the Aral Sea region of Uzbekistan.

Principal Investigator: Paul Vlek (s.aengenendt-baer@uni-bonn.de), The Center for Development Research, The University of Bonn, Germany
Co-Investigators: Christopher Martius, (c.martius@uni-bonn.de, project coordinator in Bonn), The Center for Development Research (ZEF), The University of Bonn, Germany
John Lamers (j.lamers@zef.uzpak.uz; project coordinator in Uzbekistan), ZEF/UNESCO project at the State University of Urgench, Uzbekistan
Peter Mollinga, Bernhard Tischbein, and Ahmad Mossadegh-Manschadi, ZEF, University of Bonn, Germany
Gerd Rücker, German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD) of German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Collaborators: Umid Abdullaev and Gulchehra Khazankhanova, Uzbek State Uzgipromeliovodkhoz Institute (UZGIP), Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Ruzumboy Eshchanov, Hayot Ibrakhimov, and Asia Khamzina, State University of Urgench, Urgench, Uzbekistan
Victor Dukhovny, Scientific Information Centre of the Interstate Commission for Water Coordination (SIC-ICWC), Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Nazar Ibragimov, Uzbek Cotton Research Institute, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Khokhimdjon Khomidov, Uzbek Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Alim Pulatov, Tashkent Institute for Irrigation and Mechanization (TIIM), Uzbekistan
Ken Sayre, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), El Batan, Mexico
Yulia Shirokova, SANIIRI (Irrigation Institute), Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Reiner Wassmann, Institute for Research on the Atmosphere (IMK-IFU), Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Garmisch- Partenkirchen, Germany

Precipitation intensity over the northern extratropics.

Principal Investigator: Pavel Groisman (Pasha.Groisman@noaa.gov), UCAR at NOAA National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, NC, USA
Co-Investigator: David Easterling, (David.R.Easterling@noaa.gov), NOAA National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, NC, USA
Collaborators: Vyacheslav Razuvaev (razuvaev@meteo.ru) and Olga Bulygina (bulygina@meteo.ru), Research Institute of Hydrometeorological Information, Obninsk, Russia
Esphir Bogdanova, Main Geophysical Observatory, St. Petersburg, Russia
Olga Zolina, Meteorological Institute, Bonn University, Bonn, Germany
Xuebin Zhang, Meteorological Service of Canada, Downsview, Ontario, Canada
Paul Whitfield, Meteorological Service of Canada, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Pan-Mao Zhai, Dept. of Prediction Service and Disaster Mitigation, Chinese Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China
Heikki Tuomenvirta, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland
Hans Aleksandersson, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Norrköping, Sweden
Eirik Førland and Inger Hanssen-Bauer, Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway
Marshall Shepherd,The University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA

Spatial Variations in recent climate variations in seasonal climate of Inner Mongolia.

Principal Investigators: Paul Whitfield (Paul.Whitfield@ec.gc.ca), Meteorological Service of Canada - Pacific and Yukon Region, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and
Pei Hao (pepihaho@yahoo.com), Meteorological Bureau of Inner Mongolia, China Meteorological Administration, Hohhot, China

Collaborative research: Humans and hydrology at high latitudes.

Principal Investigator: Richard Lammers (Richard.Lammers@unh.edu), University of New Hampshire, Durham, USA
Co-Investigators: Lawrence Hamilton, Alexander Shiklomanov, and Charles Vorosmarty, all at the University of New Hampshire, Durham, USA
Collaborators: Daniel White and Lilian Alessa, both at the University of Alaska - Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, USA
Rasmus Ole Rasmussen, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark
Igor Shiklomanov, State Hydrological Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
Oleg Golovanov, Arctic and Antarctic research Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia

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Collaborative Research: Diagnosis of Changes in Alpine Water Storages and Land Surface Degradation in Pamir Mountains and Amu Dariya River Basin.

Principal Investigator: Vladimir Aizen (aizen@uidaho.edu), University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, USA
Co-Investigators: Elena Aizen (aizen@uidaho.edu), University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, USA
Roland Geerken (roland.geerken@yale.edu), Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Collaborators: Arzhan Surazhakov (asurazhakov@vandals.uidaho.edu), University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, USA
Stanislav Nikitin (santvp@mail.tsu.ru), Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia
Gennady Nosenko (gnosenko@mail.ru), Institute of Geography, RAS, Moscow, Russia
Alexander Finaev (finaeff@gmail.com), Institute of Ecology and Hydropower, Tajik Academy of Sciences, Dushanbe, Tajikistan
Peter Sosin (foker@list.ru), Research Institute of Pedology, Tajik Academy of Agriculture, Dushanbe, Tajikistan

Northern Eurasian Landscapes: Interactions Between Humans, Hydrology, Land Cover and Land Use.

Alexander Shiklomanov (alex.shiklomanov@unh.edu), University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, USA
Co-Investigators: Charles Vorosmary, Richard Lammers, and Xiangming Xiao, all at the University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, USA
Nikolai Shiklomanov, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA
Collaborators: Olga Krankina (olga.krankina@oregonstate.edu), Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA
Igor Shiklomanov, Nina Speranskaya, Oleg Anisimov, and Mikhail Markov, all at the State Hydrological Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
Mikhail Tretiakov, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
Sergey Myagkov, National Institute of Hydrometeorology (NIGMI), Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Natalia Agaltsova, National Hydrometeorological Service, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Lyubov Lebed, Kazakh Research Institute of Ecology and Climate (KazNIIEK), of the Ministry of Environment Protection, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Grigory Chekan, Hydrometeorological Center of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus

Global Warming and Human-Nature dimension in Siberia. The social adaptation to the changes of terrestrial ecosystem with the emphasis on water environment.

Principal Investigator: Gen Inoue (inouegen@nagoya-u.ac.jp), Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
Co-Investigators: Takeshi Ohta (takeshi@agr.nagoya-u.ac.jp), Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
Atsuko Sugimoto (atsukos@ees.hokudai.ac.jp), Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
Hiroki Takakura (hrk@mail.tains.tohoku.ac.jp), Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
Collaborators: Trofim Maximov, Institutute for Biological Problems of Criolitozone, Yakutsk, Russia

Spatial and Temporal Scales and Mechanisms of Extreme Precipitation Events over Central Europe (STAMMEX).

Principal Investigator: Olga Zolina (ozolina@uni-bonn.de), Meterologisches Institut, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany
Colaborators: Sergey Gulev (gul@sail.msk.ru), Sea Air Interaction Laboratory, P.P.Shirshov Institute of Oceanology RAS, Moscow, Russia
Pavel Groisman (pasha.groisman@noaa.gov), UCAR at NOAA National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, North Carolina, USA
Alexander Gershunov (sasha@ucsd.edu), Scripps Institution for Oceanography, La Jolla, California, USA

Investigating the Relationship Between Land Use/Land Cover Change, Hydrologic Cycle, and Climate in Semi-Arid Central Asia.

Principal Investigator: Mutlu Ozdogan (ozdogan@wisc.edu), University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Collaborators: Chen Xi, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Urumqi, China
Alishir Kurban, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Urumqi, China

Assimilation of tower and satellite-based methane observations for improved estimation of methane fluxes over northern Eurasia.

Principal Investigator: Dennis Lettenmaier (dennisl@u.washington.edu), University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Collaborators: Kyle McDonald (kyle.mcdonald@jpl.nasa.gov), Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, USA
Toshinobu Machida (tmachida@nies.go.jp), National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan
Shamil Maksyutov (shamil@nies.go.jp), National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan
Mikhail Arshinov (michael@iao.ru), Institute of Atmospheric Optics, Tomsk, Russia

Impacts of Land Cover and Land Use Change on Water and Energy Cycle in Caspian Sea Drainage Basin.

Principal Investigator: Sassan Saatchi (ssaatchi@ucla.edu), University of California - Los Angeles, California, USA
Co-Investigator: Dara Entekhabi (darae@mit.edu), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts , USA
Collaborators: Sergey Dobrolyubov (science@geogr.msu.ru), Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Herman Shugart (hhs@virginia.edu), University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Hamid Ghaffarzadeh (hamid.ghaffarzadeh@undp.org), UNDP, Caspian Sea Environment Program, Geneva, Switzerland
Serik Akhmetov (serik.akhmetov@mail.ru), Institute of Geography, National Academy of Science, Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan
A. Babak Hedjazi (hedjazi@archi.unige.ch), Central Asia-Caucasus Forum Université de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
More collaborators will be invited to secure deliverables of this project.

In situ Precipitation Dataset in High Latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere for Calibration of GPM Mission Products .

Principal Investigator: Pavel Ya. Groisman (pasha.groisman@noaa.gov), University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, UCAR Project Scientist at NOAA National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, NC, USA
Co-Investigators: Daqing Yang(daqing@npolar.no), University of Alaska-Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
Xiaolan Wang (Xiaolan.Wang@ec.gc.ca), Environment Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Vyacheslav Razuvaev (razuvaev@meteo.ru), Russian Institute for Hydrometeorology, Obninsk, Russia, and
Esfir Bogdanova (Esfir.Bogdanova@gmail.com), Voeikov Main Geophysical Observatory, St. Petersburg, Russia
Collaborators: Olga Bulygina (bulygina@meteo.ru), Russian Institute for Hydrometeorology, Obninsk, Russia and
Paul Whitfield (Paul.Whitfield@ec.gc.ca), Environment Canada, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

International Water Research Alliance Saxony (IWAS) - model region Eastern Europe.

Principal Investigator: Thomas Berendonk (thomas.berendonk@tu-dresden.de), Technische Universität Dresden, Institute of Hydrobiology, Dresden, Germany
Co-Investigators: Thomas Pluntke (Thomas.Pluntke@tu-dresden.de) and Marco Leidel (marco.leidel@tu-dresden.de), Dept. of Meteorology, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Jochen Schanze (j.schanze@ioer.de), Johanna Truemper (Johanna.Truemper@tu-dresden.de), and Cornelia Burmeister (Cornelia.Burmeister@tu-dresden.de), Dept. of Environmental Development and Risk Management, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany and
Björn Helm (Bjoern.Helm@tu-dresden.de) Institute of Urban Water, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Collaborators:
Grigory Chekan, Hydrometeorological Center of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus

Formulating and Evaluating Water Resources Adaptation Options to Climate Change Uncertainty in the Carpathian Region.


Principal Investigators: Eugene Z. Stakhiv (Eugene.Z.Stakhiv@usace.army.mil), Institute for Water Resources, Alexandria, Virginia, USA and Ivan Kovalets (ik@env.com.ua), Institute of Mathematical Machine and System Problems (IMMSP),Cybernetics Center, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
Co-Investigators: Mark Zheleznyak (mark@env.com.ua), Andriy Demydenko (andriyd@env.com.ua), Oleksiy Boyko (alexb@env.com.ua), and Sergey Kivva (slk@env.com.ua). All at the Institute of Mathematical Machine and System Problems (IMMSP),Cybernetics Center, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine

The nature of extreme precipitation over Europe and North America.

Principal Investigator: Sergey K. Gulev (gul@sail.msk.ru), P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanography, RAS, Moscow, Russia
Co-Investigators: Pavel Groisman (pasha.groisman@noaa.gov), UCAR at NOAA National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, North Carolina, USA
Olga Zolina (ozolina@uni-bonn.de), Meteorological Institute, Bonn University, Bonn, Germany, and
Clemens Simmer (csimmer@uni-bonn.de), Meteorological Institute, Bonn University, Bonn, Germany

ructure and climatic changes of extreme precipitation over Europe and North America: Processes, risks, and predictability.

Principal Investigator: Sergey K. Gulev (gul@sail.msk.ru), P.P. Shirshov Inst. for Oceanology, RAS, Moscow, Russia Co-Investigators: Pavel Groisman, UCAR at NOAA National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, USA
Olga Zolina, Le Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l’Environnement, LGGE, Grenoble, France, and
Sergey Kravtsov, Dept. of Math, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, USA

Collaborative Research: Interactions between air temperature, permafrost and hydrology in the high latitudes of Eurasia.

Principal Investigator: Dmitry Streletskiy (strelets@gwu.edu), George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
Co-Investigator: Nikolay Shiklomanov (shiklom@gwu.edu), George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
Collaborators: Sergey Davydov, North-East Science Station, Russian Academy of Sciences, Cherskiy, Yakutia, Russia and Nikita Tananaev (igl@igarka.net), Geocryology Lab., Siberian Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, Igarka, Russia

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