Arctic hydrology and meteorology
The behavior of arctic ecosystems is directly related to the ongoing physical processes of heat and mass transfer. Furthermore, this system undergoes very large fluctuations in the surface energy balance. The buffering effect of both snow and the surface organic soils can be seen by looking at the s...
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ftosti:oai:osti.gov:5118405 2023-07-30T04:01:22+02:00 Arctic hydrology and meteorology Kane, D.L. 2008-06-30 application/pdf http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/5118405 https://www.osti.gov/biblio/5118405 https://doi.org/10.2172/5118405 unknown http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/5118405 https://www.osti.gov/biblio/5118405 https://doi.org/10.2172/5118405 doi:10.2172/5118405 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES 58 GEOSCIENCES ARCTIC REGIONS HYDROLOGY METEOROLOGY ALASKA ATMOSPHERIC PRECIPITATIONS COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION ECOSYSTEMS ENERGY BALANCE EVAPORATION GROUND WATER HEAT TRANSFER HISTORICAL ASPECTS MASS TRANSFER PROGRESS REPORT SNOW SURFACE WATERS WATERSHEDS DEVELOPED COUNTRIES DOCUMENT TYPES ENERGY TRANSFER HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS NORTH AMERICA OXYGEN COMPOUNDS PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS POLAR REGIONS SIMULATION USA WATER 2008 ftosti https://doi.org/10.2172/5118405 2023-07-11T10:36:47Z The behavior of arctic ecosystems is directly related to the ongoing physical processes of heat and mass transfer. Furthermore, this system undergoes very large fluctuations in the surface energy balance. The buffering effect of both snow and the surface organic soils can be seen by looking at the surface and 40 cm soil temperatures. The active layer, that surface zone above the permafrost table, is either continually freezing or thawing. A large percentage of energy into and out of a watershed must pass through this thin veneer that we call the active layer. Likewise, most water entering and leaving the watershed does so through the active layer. To date, we have been very successful at monitoring the hydrology of Imnavait Creek with special emphasis on the active layer processes. The major contribution of this study is that year-round hydrologic data are being collected. An original objective of our study was to define how the thermal and moisture regimes within the active layer change during an annual cycle under natural conditions, and then to define how the regime will be impacted by some imposed terrain alteration. Our major analysis of the hydrologic data sets for Imnavait Creek have been water balance evaluations for plots during snowmelt, water balance for the watershed during both rainfall and snowmelt, and the application of a hydrologic model to predict the Imnavait Creek runoff events generated by both snowmelt and rainfall. Other/Unknown Material Arctic permafrost Alaska SciTec Connect (Office of Scientific and Technical Information - OSTI, U.S. Department of Energy) Arctic |
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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES 58 GEOSCIENCES ARCTIC REGIONS HYDROLOGY METEOROLOGY ALASKA ATMOSPHERIC PRECIPITATIONS COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION ECOSYSTEMS ENERGY BALANCE EVAPORATION GROUND WATER HEAT TRANSFER HISTORICAL ASPECTS MASS TRANSFER PROGRESS REPORT SNOW SURFACE WATERS WATERSHEDS DEVELOPED COUNTRIES DOCUMENT TYPES ENERGY TRANSFER HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS NORTH AMERICA OXYGEN COMPOUNDS PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS POLAR REGIONS SIMULATION USA WATER |
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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES 58 GEOSCIENCES ARCTIC REGIONS HYDROLOGY METEOROLOGY ALASKA ATMOSPHERIC PRECIPITATIONS COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION ECOSYSTEMS ENERGY BALANCE EVAPORATION GROUND WATER HEAT TRANSFER HISTORICAL ASPECTS MASS TRANSFER PROGRESS REPORT SNOW SURFACE WATERS WATERSHEDS DEVELOPED COUNTRIES DOCUMENT TYPES ENERGY TRANSFER HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS NORTH AMERICA OXYGEN COMPOUNDS PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS POLAR REGIONS SIMULATION USA WATER Kane, D.L. Arctic hydrology and meteorology |
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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES 58 GEOSCIENCES ARCTIC REGIONS HYDROLOGY METEOROLOGY ALASKA ATMOSPHERIC PRECIPITATIONS COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION ECOSYSTEMS ENERGY BALANCE EVAPORATION GROUND WATER HEAT TRANSFER HISTORICAL ASPECTS MASS TRANSFER PROGRESS REPORT SNOW SURFACE WATERS WATERSHEDS DEVELOPED COUNTRIES DOCUMENT TYPES ENERGY TRANSFER HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS NORTH AMERICA OXYGEN COMPOUNDS PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS POLAR REGIONS SIMULATION USA WATER |
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The behavior of arctic ecosystems is directly related to the ongoing physical processes of heat and mass transfer. Furthermore, this system undergoes very large fluctuations in the surface energy balance. The buffering effect of both snow and the surface organic soils can be seen by looking at the surface and 40 cm soil temperatures. The active layer, that surface zone above the permafrost table, is either continually freezing or thawing. A large percentage of energy into and out of a watershed must pass through this thin veneer that we call the active layer. Likewise, most water entering and leaving the watershed does so through the active layer. To date, we have been very successful at monitoring the hydrology of Imnavait Creek with special emphasis on the active layer processes. The major contribution of this study is that year-round hydrologic data are being collected. An original objective of our study was to define how the thermal and moisture regimes within the active layer change during an annual cycle under natural conditions, and then to define how the regime will be impacted by some imposed terrain alteration. Our major analysis of the hydrologic data sets for Imnavait Creek have been water balance evaluations for plots during snowmelt, water balance for the watershed during both rainfall and snowmelt, and the application of a hydrologic model to predict the Imnavait Creek runoff events generated by both snowmelt and rainfall. |
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