Canadian Water Resources Vulnerability Index - Permafrost Loss : Indice de Vulnérabilité des Ressources en Eau au canadiennes - Perte de Pergélisol

• Main Author: Spence, Christopher
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Environment and Climate Change Canada 2019
• Subjects: Water; National CA; Environmental Model; Provide Climate Information Products and Services; Expand Scientific Knowledge for Climate Monitoring and Prediction; Arctic; Yukon; Northwest Territories; Hudson Bay; Canada; Hudson; Baie James; Arctic Archipelago; Arctique*; Baffin; permafrost; Territoires du Nord-Ouest; James Bay; pergélisol
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.18164/70bbb27a-53e8-4259-bb0a-7688b5e954f5; https://data-donnees.ec.gc.ca/data/climate/scientificknowledge/canadian-water-resources-vulnerability-index-permafrost-loss/

Permafrost loss is pervasive across northern circumpolar regions. The loss of frozen ground has profound impacts on water resources at varying spatial and temporal scales via changes to predominant hydrological processes, runoff pathways and entrainment rates of solutes and sediments. Consensus exis...