About BaSeNet

To promote and further develop hydrologic-hydrogeologic-geochemical research in PEEX BaSeNet is :

1. developing an adaptive regional characterization approach that enables use of the extensive Baikal Selenga drainage basin as a large-scale field laboratory for measuring:

• representative hydrological and hydrogeochemical characteristics of the individual and the coupled groundwater and surface water systems
• solute, suspension and bedload transport over control planes at multiple locations within the basin
• changes in flow and transport characteristics during hydrological (precipitation) events, and between hydrological seasons.

2. using the Baikal Selenga drainage basin results in inter-regional comparison studies with consistently investigated other drainage basins in different world parts. The comparison aim is to identify similarities and systematic differences between large basin characteristics, hydrological responses to climate change, and tracer-pollutant spreading behavior (spatiotemporal variability and change trends) across different main drainage basins of the world. In this comparative context, the Baikal Selenga drainage basin represents a sparsely populated and as of yet largely unmonitored and unregulated river basin with discontinuous permafrost, discharging through Lake Baikal and its downstream river network into the Arctic Ocean.