Hydrological, meteorological, and watershed controls on the water balance of thermokarst lakes between Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, Canada

• Published in: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
• Main Authors: Wilcox, Evan J., Wolfe, Brent B., Marsh, Philip
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2023
• Subjects: article; Verlagsveröffentlichung; Arctic; Canada; Inuvik; Mackenzie Delta; Northwest Territories; Tuktoyaktuk; Climate change; Thermokarst; Tundra
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-2173-2023; https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00066987; https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00065457/hess-27-2173-2023.pdf; https://hess.copernicus.org/articles/27/2173/2023/hess-27-2173-2023.pdf

Thermokarst lake water balances are becoming increasingly vulnerable to change in the Arctic as air temperature increases and precipitation patterns shift. In the tundra uplands east of the Mackenzie Delta in the Northwest Territories, Canada, previous research has found that lakes responded non-uni...