HYDROLOGY OF A DRAINAGE BASIN ON THE ALASKAN COASTAL PLAIN.

• Main Authors: Brown,Jerry, Dingman,S. Lawrence, Lewellen,Robert I.
• Other Authors: COLD REGIONS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING LAB HANOVER N H
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1968
• Subjects: Hydrology; Limnology and Potamology; (*HYDROLOGY; ALASKA); DRAINAGE; LAKES; CLIMATE; ATMOSPHERIC PRECIPITATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; PERMAFROST; STORMS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; EVAPORATION; TERRAIN; ARCTIC OCEAN; COASTAL REGIONS; WINTER; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Gage; Barrow; Ice; permafrost; Tundra; wedge*; Alaska
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0671005; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0671005

A 4-summer hydrologic record from a 1.6-sq km drainage basin at Barrow, Alaska is analyzed. The watershed, a drained lake basin, is underlain by continuous permafrost within 0.3 m of the tundra surface and is covered by ice-wedge polygons and numerous small shallow ponds. Considerable variations fro...