Water and Energy Abstracts
  • Year: 2005
  • Volume: 15
  • Issue: 2

100. Water Balance in a West Greenlandic Watershed

  • Author:
  • Christian Helweg
  • Total Page Count: 1
  • Page Number: 35 to 35

(Northern Research Basins Water Balance – Proceedings of a Workshop held at Victoria, Canada, March 2004 – IAHS Publication 290, 2004, pp. 143–151).

Abstract

An initial water balance has been set up for the Pisissarfik watershed on the west coast of Greenland. The balance shows that precipitation data are problematic and that more detailed studies are needed on evapotranspiration and storage before a more trustworthy balance can be achieved.

Keywords

Evapotranspiration, Greenland, Hydrology, Pisissarfik, Precipitation, Storage, Water balance