Water balance of the Mekong river basin during GAME IOP


Kooiti MASUDA (Frontier Research System for Global Change)
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Mekong river basin (in 1-degree latitude-longitude grids)


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Estimated discharge to the ocean (cubic km / year)

Values from

1Amazon6642
2Congo1308
3Orinoco1129
4Changjiang944
5Brahmaputra628
6Mississippi610
7Yenisey599
8Parana568
9Lena531
10Mekong525
11Tocantins511
12Tapajos415Tributary of Amazon, but measured separately
13Ob412
14Ganges404
15Irrawaddy393
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Sources of data for water balance of Year 1998

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Mekong river basin [Orange: area of water balance study]


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Rain gauge observations (Year 1998)

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Stations of rain gauges (July 1998)


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Water balance fluxes, basin average above Pakse, 1998


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Precipitation (May - August 1998) [mm / 4 months]


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Evaporation (May - August 1998) [mm / 4 months]


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moisture Convergence (May - August 1998) [mm / 4 months]


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terrestrial water Storage, basin average (April - October 1998)


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Plan for revised analysis (middle Mekong and Nam Mun)


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Stations of surface flux observations (1998)


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Stations of radiosonde observations (1998)


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