Average annual runoff

Figure Created 12 Nov 2009 Published 12 Nov 2009 Last modified 29 Nov 2012

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Topics: Water and marine environment ,

Notes: Map prepared at a 10 km x 10 km grid resolution, showing average run-off with some smoothing of local detail

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Last upload:: 01 Jan 2002
Tags:: evaporation , climate , water , precipitation
Methodology:: Using river flow data from the FRIEND European Water Archive (Gustard, A. [ed.] [1993]: Flow Regimes from International Experimental and Network Data [FRIEND]. In Hydrological Studies, Vol. 1. Institute of Hydrology, Wallingford, UK) and climatological data from the Climate Research Unit, University of East Anglia (Hulme, M., Conway, D., Jones, P.D., Barrow, E.M., Jiang, T. and Turney, C. [1995]: A 1961-90 climatology for Europe for climate change modelling and impacts applications. In Int. Jnl. Clim., Vol. 15, p. 1333-1363).
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Processors:: UNEP GRID Warszawa
Figure type:: Map

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Based on gauged data from hydrometric networks. Run-off in ungauged areas estimated from an empirical relationship relating run-off to precipitation and potential evaporation (Budyko, M.I. and Zubenok, L.I. [1961]: The determination of evaporation from the land surface. Izv. Akad, Nauk SSSR. In Ser. Geogr., No 6, p. 3-17).