Elevation—Space and Space—Time Analysis of Water Balancein European Russia

摘要

A scheme of water balance differentiation of a territory is proposed. The vertical and space—timestructure of water balance are considered. A procedure for regional space—time analysis of water balance wasdeveloped and tested, allowing one to evaluate its different characteristics and relationships, to simulate theseries of their mean annual values in points where no observations are available, and to carry out computer-aided mapping of the obtained results. Electronic maps were constructed to characterize the distribution ofriver runoff and its surface and subsurface components over the European Russia, the correlation and con-junction between them, the distribution of annual precipitation, and the precipitation of the warm and coldperiods over the territory. Statistical relationships, reflecting different aspects of space—time variations in themajor water balance elements, are given.