Export of nutrients and suspended solids from major Arctic rivers and their response to permafrost degradation

• Published in: Advances in Climate Change Research
• Main Authors: Shu-Min Zhang, Cui-Cui Mu, Zhi-Long Li, Wen-Wen Dong, Xing-Yu Wang, Irina Streletskaya, Valery Grebenets, Sergey Sokratov, Alexander Kizyakov, Xiao-Dong Wu
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. 2021
• Subjects: Arctic rivers; Carbonate; Nutrients; Total suspended solids; Permafrost; Meteorology. Climatology; QC851-999; Social sciences (General); H1-99; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Yukon; Kolyma; Yenisey; Active layer thickness; permafrost
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.accre.2021.06.002; https://doaj.org/article/7b09c41711b142babb9f7b4f058f6a76

The rapid warming of the Arctic has led to permafrost degradation, accelerating the transport of terrestrial materials by rivers. The quantitative assessment of riverine nutrients and total suspended solids (TSS) flux is important to clarify the land–ocean connections in the Arctic. However, much is...