In December, the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for conducting scientific and methodological examinations of the prepared-for-publication annual-long-term data on the regime and quality of seawater and river estuaries flowing into the seas of the Russian Arctic (52.17.6–2024) was established. Another Standard governs the conduct of expeditionary hydrological observations on surface water bodies of land in the conditions of the high-latitude Arctic (52.17.7–2024).
To this end, the operation of the state observation network in the basins of the White Sea, Barents Sea, Kara Sea, Laptev Sea, East Siberian Sea, Chukchi Sea, and Bering Sea has been subject to specific requirements. Furthermore, a three-level technological scheme has been developed for preparing publications of the Water Cadastre for the basins of the Russian Arctic seas, including territorial, basin, and federal levels.
The new documents are, as the name suggests, organisational standards designed to standardise the work of our department, namely expeditionary hydrological research in the Arctic and the study of new and existing materials within the Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring network, also in the Arctic region. These documents will establish a unified methodological approach, which will increase the representativeness of the results obtained and thus improve the quality of the work carried out,
said AARI engineer Igor Vasilevich, a member of the working group that developed the SOP
Thus, the hydrological research standards for the Arctic, published by the AARI, describe methodologies and requirements for monitoring surface water bodies in extreme conditions. These documents cover instruments, sampling rules, data processing, ice cover considerations, climatic impacts, and criteria for measurement reliability. Special attention is given to the challenges of working in remote and hard-to-reach areas.
Source: AARI
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