River discharge data, National Petroleum Reserve, Alaska, 2001-2017

• Main Authors: Kemnitz, Richard, Arp, Christopher, Whitman, Matthew, Vas, Dragos
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2018
• Subjects: arctic; rivers; watersheds; Alaska; hydrology; Arctic; Fairbanks; Climate change; Thermokarst
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.18739/a2g44hq8w; https://arcticdata.io/catalog/#view/doi:10.18739/A2G44HQ8W

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.