River discharge data in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska from 2001-2017
Bureau of Land Management hydrologist Richard Kemnitz collected discharge records from 2001 to 2017 for several rivers in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A) in cooperation with the U.S. Geological Survey, University of Alaska Fairbanks, the Arctic Landscape Conservation Cooperative, an...
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Arctic Data Center
2018
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Summary: | Bureau of Land Management hydrologist Richard Kemnitz collected discharge records from 2001 to 2017 for several rivers in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A) in cooperation with the U.S. Geological Survey, University of Alaska Fairbanks, the Arctic Landscape Conservation Cooperative, and the National Science Foundation. These valuable records for a remote roadless region of the Arctic represent the hydrological response of watersheds in a region undergoing expanded development by the petroleum industry and over a time period of notable climate change in Arctic Alaska. Hydrologic datasets such as these are also being utilized for a new NSF funded project titled "Causes and Consequences of Catastrophic Lake Drainage in an Evolving Arctic System (OPP-1806287)" to assess changes in arctic hydrology due to flood events generated from drained thermokarst lake basins. |
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