Ice regime of the lower Peace River and ice‐jam flooding of the Peace‐Athabasca Delta

• Published in: Hydrological Processes
• Main Authors: Beltaos, Spyros, Prowse, Terry D., Carter, Tom
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2006
• Subjects: Canada; Peace-Athabasca Delta; Peace River; Wood Bison
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hyp.6417; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fhyp.6417; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/hyp.6417

Abstract The Peace‐Athabasca Delta (PAD) in northern Alberta is one of the world's largest inland freshwater deltas, home to large populations of waterfowl, muskrat, beaver, and free‐ranging wood bison. Beginning in the mid‐1970s, a paucity of ice‐jam flooding in the lower Peace River has resul...