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The ability of present-day climate models to reproduce the mean annual regime of river runoff and its within-year distribution is evaluated for major Eurasian basins, including the basins of the Volga and Amur and the major Siberian rivers: the Ob, Yenisei, and Lena. Estimates are made for possible variations in seasonal runoff and characteristics of daily precipitation (the amount, rate, and probability) in drainage areas for the late XXI century. The analysis involved the use of the results of calculations by climatic general circulation models carried out under international Coupled Model Intercomparison Project.
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Original Russian Text © V.Ch. Khon, I.I. Mokhov, 2012, published in Vodnye Resursy, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 3–12.
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Khon, V.C., Mokhov, I.I. The hydrological regime of large river basins in Northern Eurasia in the XX–XXI centuries. Water Resour 39, 1–10 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0097807812010058
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