Emerging dominance of summer rainfall driving High Arctic terrestrial-aquatic connectivity

Climate warming is causing annual Arctic fluvial energy budgets to shift seasonality from snowmelt-dominated to snowmelt- and rainfall-dominated hydrological regimes, enhancing late summer and fall terrestrial-aquatic connectivity and higher material fluxes.

Bibliographic Details
Published in:Nature Communications
Main Authors: C. R. Beel, J. K. Heslop, J. F. Orwin, M. A. Pope, A. J. Schevers, J. K. Y. Hung, M. J. Lafrenière, S. F. Lamoureux
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21759-3
https://doaj.org/article/6c54964a63f042e48bce0232e8424218
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Summary:Climate warming is causing annual Arctic fluvial energy budgets to shift seasonality from snowmelt-dominated to snowmelt- and rainfall-dominated hydrological regimes, enhancing late summer and fall terrestrial-aquatic connectivity and higher material fluxes.