%0 Dataset
%T Water conservation functions of forests in the Ob and Yenisei River basins
%J Arid Land Ecology and Resources Science Data Center
%I Arid Land Ecology and Resources Science Data Center(data.dcxjegi.cn)
%U https://data.dcxjegi.cn/portal/metadata/7d125018-dead-4f11-a345-b4a5ccc6f2e1
%W NCDC
%R 10.12389/ariddc.02307
%A Documentation Information Center
%K Snowmelt runoff;Forest hydrology
%X The basins of the Ob and Yenisei Rivers occupy vast areas of Western and Eastern Siberia. These rivers possess enormous hydropower resources, and their development has already begun. The Novosibirsk Hydroelectric Power Station has been built on the Ob River, while the Yenisei, one of the largest rivers in the world, has been dammed near Krasnoyarsk, and construction of the Sayan Hydroelectric Power Station has also commenced.The intensive industrial and agricultural development of this region, together with extensive forest harvesting, has created complex challenges for hydrology, and particularly for forest hydrology, requiring investigation of the influence of forests on the hydrological and climatic conditions of these river basins.The hydrological role of forests has already been studied in the European part of the Soviet Union. However, data concerning the influence of Siberian forests on runoff and the factors affecting it remain insufficient.Between 1960 and 1963, the Institute of Forestry and Timber of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences organized studies on the influence of forests on the principal components of the water balance, namely precipitation, evaporation, and runoff, in different regions of the Ob and Yenisei River basins. Investigations were also conducted into how these components vary with altitude within the mountain taiga zone.The objective of this research was to obtain scientifically substantiated data for long-term planning purposes, including forest restoration, timber harvesting planning, the reassessment of the optimal arrangement of water-protection forest belts along major rivers, the determination of effective afforestation schemes for sparsely forested agricultural regions, the conversion of forest lands to other land-use categories, and the clarification of the influence of forests on the hydrological regimes of rivers and reservoirs. These issues are directly connected with hydraulic engineering development and irr