Maria Borisovna Kireeva

Lomonosov Moscow State University | MSU · Hydrology

Despite the significant role that the Lower Don plays in Russia’s fishing industry, the region’s fisheries remain in a depressed state. It is well understood that the Tsimlyansk reservoir impacts the region’s fisheries, but the potential influence of climate change and associated reductions in snowmelt water flow remains under debate. The present s...

The article provides an overview of publications devoted to assessing changes in the water regime of Russian rivers under the conditions of current and projected climate changes. The most recent summary of the relevant publications is contained in the national assessment reports of Roshydromet. Since the publication of these fundamental works, a la...

As the adverse impacts of hydrological extremes increase in many regions of the world, a better understanding of the drivers of changes in risk and impacts is essential for effective flood and drought risk management and climate adaptation. However, there is currently a lack of comprehensive, empirical data about the processes, interactions, and fe...

As the adverse impacts of hydrological extremes increase in many regions of the world, a better understanding of the drivers of changes in risk and impacts is essential for effective flood and drought risk management and climate adaptation. However, there is currently a lack of comprehensive, empirical data about the processes, interactions and fee...

Empirical study of the isotopic features of river runoff were conducted at three hydrological posts in three different river basins: the Zakza river in the center of East European Plane (southwest of Moscow), the Dubna river (north of Moscow) and the Sosna Bystraya river in the south of central region. Samples of river water, groundwater, and preci...

The article presents the results of study of the application of machine learning methods to the problem of classification and identification of different river water regimes in a large region – the European territory of Russia. An accumulation of hydrological observation data for the 60 – 80 years makes it possible to create an information basis fo...

Risk management has reduced vulnerability to floods and droughts globally1,2, yet their impacts are still increasing³. An improved understanding of the causes of changing impacts is therefore needed, but has been hampered by a lack of empirical data4,5. On the basis of a global dataset of 45 pairs of events that occurred within the same area, we sh...

Empirical study of the isotopic features of river runoff were carried out at three hydrological posts in 3 different river basins: the Zakza river in the center of East European Plane (southwest of the Moscow), the Dubna river (north of the Moscow) and the Sosna river in the south of central region. Samples of river water, groundwater and precipita...

The analysis of the formation of spring runoff on the rivers of the Russian Plain is presented. A brief review of the studies dealing with the dynamics of individual climate characteristics and river floods on the Russian Plain in the past 40 years is given. It was shown that as a result of climate change and anthropogenic impact on the formation o...

The review of the papers dealing with the river runoff formation is presented. The factors of the spring flood formation are typified. The groups of direct and indirect, dynamic and quasi-permanent, as well as anthropogenic factors are distinguished. The authors constructed a summary scheme of the spring flood formation factors, taking into account...

The 2009, 2010, 2011, 2019 and 2020 hydrographs for the Protva River were separated into fast and basic components by the grapho-analytical method using the GrWat software package. The algorithm makes it pos�sible to automatically separate the spring flood, baseline runoff, rain and thaw floods, depending on the char�acteristics of the water regime...

At the end of the 20th—early twenty-first century, mountain glaciers exhibited the most negative mass balances since the beginning of observations. The hydrological consequence of deglaciation is a rise in glacial runoff until a maximum (‘peak water’) is reached, beyond which runoff decreases as glacier extents are reduced. It is likely that the pe...

Water regime of rivers is an important characteristic of the surface land waters as a natural environment component and object of economic use. The reaction of the rivers’ water regime to the climatic changes, including the case of extreme hydro-meteorological events, has not been studied carefully yet. It is necessary to adapt the water part of na...

The article focuses on the study of flood flow changes on the rivers of the European Territory of Russia (ETR) in the last thirty years. This is an extremely important problem, as with floods, whose contribution to the structure of the annual flow of European rivers in recent decades has been increasing, the most destructive floods are associated....

This study aims to analyze the stable isotope composition of the snow cover of the Elbrus Mountain-the highest mountain in Europe. Snow sampled in the middle accumulation. Snow sampled at the south slope of Mt. Elbrus at different elevations, and the total altitude range is approximately 1700 m. A significant altitude effect in fresh snow precipita...

Drought is one of the most dangerous natural hazards that has a huge impact on the economy and population in the world and in Russia as well. A large number of studies speak of an increase in the number of droughts and low flow conditions, including Russia. In this work, an analysis was made of the conditions for droughts in the East European Plain...

The river runoff regime significantly changed worldwide in the end of XX – the beginning of XXI century. In the European part of Russia the current changes are manifested in different ways in various regions. The main trend that is observed for most river basins is the ‘leveling’ of annual hydrographs. The interception of melt water during occasion...

This study presents a dataset on long-term multidisciplinary glaciological, hydrological, and meteorological observations and isotope sampling in a sparsely monitored alpine zone of the North Caucasus in the Djankuat research basin. The Djankuat glacier, which is the largest in the basin, was chosen as representative of the central North Caucasus d...

This paper presents the first thorough generalization of the recent change in annual peak runoff magnitude, variation, and timing in the North Caucasus. The patterns of the observed changes in the characteristics of peak runoff in the late XX–early XXI century are rather complicated, but show consistent structures over the territory. The main possi...

Climate change has led to concerns about increasing river floods resulting from the greater water-holding capacity of a warmer atmosphere¹. These concerns are reinforced by evidence of increasing economic losses associated with flooding in many parts of the world, including Europe². Any changes in river floods would have lasting implications for th...

The Don River is the largest river in the southwestern part of European Russia and the second largest river system in European Russia. The Don River basin is one of the most water deficient regions in Russia and the long term average water usage in the basin amounts to 45%. The period 2007-2016 was the longest long-term low-flow period observed, wi...

One of the core elements in improvement of understanding of the nature of changes in hydrological extremes is a deep analyses of the historical data. When using for analysis only values that can be easily derived from the datasets of daily discharges: annual mean, min., max. value - we use only a small percentage of the information from the 365 dai...

The annual runoff of rivers from the territory of Russia into the Arctic seas is approximately equal to 2922 km3, or 55.6 % of the total inflow of river waters into the Arctic Ocean. Such an amount of fresh water and its long-term fluctuations, together with the sediments and heat transported by rivers, can have a significant impact on the regional...

The study presents a dataset on long-term complex glaciological, hydrological, meteorological observations and isotopes sampling in an extremely underreported alpine zone of the North Caucasus. The Djankuat research basin is of 9.1km², situated on elevations between 2500–4000m, by 30% covered with glaciers. The biggest in the basin – the Djankuat g...

Based on observational data from 70 hydrological stations in the North Caucasus an evaluation of present values of mean annual runoff, minimum monthly winter and summer runoff was carried out. Series of maps was drawn. Significant changes in mean annual. minimum monthly and maximum runoff during last decades have been revealed in the North Caucasus...

Modern features of the water regime are considered, namely, the role of flood runoff in its formation on the rivers of the European part of Russia. Based on the analysis of the hydrograph by genetic components, changes in the characteristic dates and maximum water consumption of thaw and rain floods, and the volume of runoff for each phase of the h...

In the past 10 years the Don River region of Russian South experienced extreme droughts. By analyzing changes in land usage in the Don basin area and taking into account geographical location and population distribution we were able to identify two possible factors responsible for water shortages. First factor is natural draughts caused by anomalou...

Frequency and intensity of river floods rise observed in the North Caucasus during last decades is considered to be driven by recent climate change. In order to predict possible future trends in extreme hydrological events in the context of climate change, it is essential to estimate the contribution of different feed sources in complicated flow-fo...

Frequency and intensity of river floods rise observed in the North Caucasus during last decades is considered to be driven by recent climate change. In order to predict possible future trends in extreme hydrological events in the context of climate change, it is essential to estimate the contribution of different feed sources in complicated flow-fo...

The original version of this article unfortunately contained a mistake. The spelling of the Yu.K. VASILCHUK’s name was incorrect. The correct name is given below. Yu.K. VASIL’CHUK

A warming climate is expected to have an impact on the magnitude and timing of river floods; however, no consistent large-scale climate change signal in observed flood magnitudes has been identified so far. We analyzed the timing of river floods in Europe over the past five decades, using a pan-European database from 4262 observational hydrometric...

Hydrological extreme events pose an imminent risk to society and economics. In this paper, various aspects of hydrological hazards in Russia are analysed at different scales of risk assessment. It is shown that the number of hydrological and meteorological hazards in Russia has been growing every year. The frequency of economic losses associated wi...

Modern features of annual flow distribution of the Volga Basin were reviewed. Statistical analysis of the annual flow data for the spring, summer-autumn and winter seasons were carried out to study the changes of the water regime the Volga Basin Rivers in 1946-2010, 1946-1977, 1978-2010 observation years. Using the data of 207 stations new maps of...

High mountain areas provide water resources for a large share of the world’s population. The ongoing deglaciation of these areas is resulting in great instability of mountainous headwater regions, which could significantly affect water supply and intensify dangerous hydrological processes. The hydrological processes in mountains are still poorly un...

Detection of the rivers' feeding type is a complex and multifactor task. Such partitioning should be based, on the one hand, on the genesis of the feeding water, on the other hand, on its physical path. At the same time it should consider relationship of the feeding type with corresponding phase of the water regime. Due to the above difficulties an...

High-elevation mountain catchments provide fresh water recourses for biological communities and people living in mountain valleys. An ongoing active deglaciation results in great instability of mountainous headwater regions that can considerably affect water supply and cause intensification of dangerous hydrological processes. Due to complicated na...

The formation of snowmelt runoff from the Dzhankuat glacier has been considered and the hydrograph of the Dzhankuat R. has been separated with the use of isotope and ionic balance. Isotope variations of runoff at the outlet section of the Dzhankuat R. have been studied for two ablation seasons of 2013 and 2014. The separation of 2014 hydrograph was...

This paper reviews the changes in river flow of the European part of Russia during the low-flow period, characterizing groundwater flow feeding. River flow oscillations were analyzed for winter and summer periods. Statistical analyses of average low flow and the minimum monthly summer and winter discharges for 1946–1977 and 1978–2010 showed signifi...

Application of the stable isotope method in the balance equations used to calculate separation of the runoff hydrograph from the Djankuat Glacier basin is demonstrated. Simultaneous solution of equations of water, isotope and ion balances is applied to estimate contributions of different components and processes to formation of the Djankuat River r...

A multicomponent structure of sources of river runoff formation is characteristic of high-altitude territories: ice and firn melting; seasonal snow melting on glacier covered and non-glacier area of a watershed; liquid precipitation; underground waters. In addition, each of these components can run off the watershed surface in different ways. Use o...

The regional spatial-temporal analysis of the formation of the maximum flow was made on the basis of geographical and hydrological method using GIS-technologies and statistical methods. The characteristics of natural and anthropogenic prerequisites for the formation of floods were performed. Conclusion about the leading role of natural factors in t...

Drought; Hydrology; Impacts; Management; 2015 European drought

This paper reviews the changes in river flow of the European part of Russia during the low-flow period, characterizing groundwater flow feeding. River flow oscillations were analyzed for winter and summer periods. Statistical analyses of average low flow and the minimum monthly summer and winter discharges for 1946–1977 and 1978–2010 showed signifi...

There are more than 700 cities and towns, thousands of villages and settlements, and more than seven million hectares of agricultural land of the Russian territory are exposed to a risk of flooding. Results of flood modeling for three cities located in different parts of Russia: Veliky Ustyug at Northern Dvina river (Europe); Yakutsk at the Lena ri...

Extreme hydrological events on the rivers of European part of Russia are closely related to the hydrological regime transformation answering recent climate changes. Rivers in this region used to be traditionally attributed to the Eastern-European type with well-pronounced seasonal flood wave and quite low flow period during summer and winter. Durin...

Climate change-derived variations in the characteristics of the annual, dry-season, and minimal monthly runoff in rivers of European Russia were estimated and analysed. The current changes in runoff characteristics were studied for different river basins, and their major causes were identified. Regional regularities in the hydrological and geohydro...

The formation and distribution of present-day water resources under the effect of changing climate are studied. Seasonal, annual, and many-year variations in the regime of spring-flood and dry-season runoff of rivers with drainage areas from 2000 to 20000 km2, reflecting the zonal landscape-climatic conditions of runoff formation, are considered. I...

Variations in the characteristics of the annual, dry-season, and minimal monthly runoff in rivers of European Russia for the recent 35 years (1975–2005) have been estimated and analyzed in comparison with a period of approximately the same duration (1935–1969). The genesis of runoff for different river basins and the major causes of current changes...

The natural-climatic causes of changes in river runoff and seasonal recharge of groundwater in Don basin are considered. Joint analysis is made of changes in the statistical characteristics of the series of air temperature and precipitation, mean annual and dry-season-averaged runoff for both the entire observation period and of periods 1940–1969 a...

The study focused on hazardous hydrological processes in mountainous areas. The general objective was to analyse the spatiotemporal distribution of the characteristics of such processes in the Terek River basin and to examine the main approaches to calculating and forecasting these processes. The study mostly deals with maximum and minimum water fl...

Spatial distribution of features characteristic of no-flow periods (duration, frequency, maximum area of basins without flow under a given precipitation) has been analyzed in detail for the European part of Russia. The territory was subdivided into regions according to several parameters describing the no-flow phenomenon. A number of empirical rela...

The general geographic description of the mouth area of the Vistula River is given. The region embraces the Vistula River delta and the coastal areas of the Gulf of Gdansk and Vistula Bay. The special emphasis is on the description of hydrological regime, as well as the evolution and dynamics of the hydrographic network within the Vistula River del...