Changing hydrologic connectivity due to permafrost thaw in the lower Liard River valley, NWT, Canada

• Published in: Hydrological Processes
• Main Authors: Connon, Ryan F., Quinton, William L., Craig, James R., Hayashi, Masaki
• Other Authors: Canadian Space Agency, Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2014
• Subjects: Northwest Territories; Canada; Kendall; Liard; Scotty Creek; Ice; Liard River; Peat; permafrost
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hyp.10206; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fhyp.10206; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/hyp.10206

Abstract Flows from river basins in northwestern Canada have been rising in the last two decades as a result of climate warming. In the wetland‐dominated basins that characterise the southern margin of permafrost, permafrost thaw and disappearance, and resulting land‐cover change, is occurring at an...