Hydrological, meteorological and watershed controls on the water balance of thermokarst lakes between Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, Canada

• Main Authors: Wilcox, Evan J., Wolfe, Brent B., Marsh, Philip
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Arctic; Canada; Inuvik; Mackenzie Delta; Northwest Territories; Tuktoyaktuk; Climate change; Thermokarst; Tundra
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2022-279; https://hess.copernicus.org/preprints/hess-2022-279/

Thermokarst lake water balances are becoming increasingly vulnerable to change in the Arctic as air temperature increases and precipitation patterns shift. In the tundra uplands east of the Mackenzie Delta in the Northwest Territories, Canada, previous research has found that lakes responded non-uni...