Decreasing river discharge in northern Canada

• Main Authors: Stephen J. Déry, E. F. Wood, Timescales Citation Déry
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2005
• Subjects: Arctic; Canada; Kendall; Pacific; Arctic Archipelago; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.493.2276; http://nhg.unbc.ca/publicationfiles/2005GL022845.pdf

[1] Freshwater discharge to high-latitude oceans in 64 Canadian rivers is investigated. The mean annual discharge rate attains 1252 km3 yr1 for an area of 5.6 106 km2, equating to a sink of 225 mm yr1 in the surface water budget of northern Canada (excluding the Arctic Archipelago where insufficient...