Tarfala Data

Water

During the late 1960s and early 1970s, in conjunction with the UNESCO International Hydrological Decade (IHD), studies of the hydrology of the Tarfala Valley catchment were started in earnest. River discharge measurements had been carried out during the 1950s and 1960s, but with the construction of a fixed gauging station called Rännan, true monitoring of hydrology could be initiated.

Monitoring data

Hydrological measurements are still carried out at Rännan as well as at an additional upstream station Lillsjön close to the Tarfala research station (TRS). Tarfala constitutes the only gauged alpine catchment in Sweden.

Download data

• Tarfala catchment runoff data 1969–1992
• Tarfala sediment data 1959–1990
• Graph of Tarfala sediment data 1959–1990

Research data

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• Daily streamflow data from the monitoring site Rännan (mid-May through September) 1969–2011 (Dahlke et al., 2012)
• Daily streamflow data from the monitoring site Rännan (mid-May through September) 1969–2011 (Dahlke et al., 2012)
• Snow water equivalent (SWE) and snow isotopes from south- and north-facing slopes in the Tarfala catchment (Dahlke and Lyons, 2013)
• Isotope data from streams (and rainfall) in the Tarfala catchment (Dahlke et al., 2013)

For details regarding these data and before using the them, please contact the following researchers.

• Dr. Helen E. Dahlke; Department of Land, Air, and Water Resources; University of California, Davis; +1 530 302 5358;
  hdahlke AT ucdavis DOT edu
• Dr. Steve W. Lyon; Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology; Stockholm University; +46 8 16 4888;
  steve DOT lyon AT natgeo DOT su DOT se

Publications

Early melt season snowpack isotopic evolution in the Tarfala valley, northern Sweden
Dahlke H.E., Lyon S.W.
Annals of Glaciology, Volume 54, Number 62, pp. 149–156(8) (2013). DOI:10.3189/2013AoG62A232

Contrasting trends in floods for two sub-arctic catchments in northern Sweden — does glacier presence matter?
Dahlke H.E., Lyon S.W., Stedinger J.R., Rosqvist G., and Jansson P.
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Vol 16, pp. 2123–2141 (2012). DOI:10.5194/hess-16-2123-2012

Isotopic investigation of runoff generation in a glacierized catchment in northern Sweden
Dahlke H.E., Lyon S.W., Jansson P., Karlin T. and Rosqvist G.
Hydrological Processes (2013). DOI:10.1002/hyp.9668

Suspended sediment transport in the Storglaciären drainage basin
Schneider, T., and Bronge, C.
Geografiska Annaler: Series A, Physical Geography, Vol. 78, No. 2/3 (1999), pp. 155–162.