Hydrological and meteorological investigations in a lake near Kangerlussuaq, west Greenland

Few hydrological studies have been made in Greenland, other than on glacial hydrology associated with the ice sheet. Understanding permafrost hydrology and hydroclimatic change and variability, however, provides key information for understanding climate change effects and feedbacks in the Arctic lan...

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Main Authors: Johansson, Emma, Berglund, Sten, Lindborg, Tobias, Petrone, Johannes, van As, Dirk, Gustafsson, Lars-Göran, Näslund, Jens-Ove, Laudon, Hjalmar
Format: Dataset
Language:English
Published: PANGAEA 2014
Subjects:
GRASP
GReenland Analogue Surface Project
Kangerl_WGreenl_TBL
Two Boat Lake
Kangerlussuaq
Greenland
Climate change
Ice
Ice Sheet
permafrost
Online Access:https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.836178
https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.836178
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Summary:Few hydrological studies have been made in Greenland, other than on glacial hydrology associated with the ice sheet. Understanding permafrost hydrology and hydroclimatic change and variability, however, provides key information for understanding climate change effects and feedbacks in the Arctic landscape. This paper presents a new extensive and detailed hydrological and meteorological open access dataset, with high temporal resolution from a 1.56 km**2 permafrost catchment with a lake underlain by a through talik close to the ice sheet in the Kangerlussuaq region, western Greenland. The paper describes the hydrological site investigations and utilized equipment, as well as the data collection and processing. The investigations were performed between 2010 and 2013. The high spatial resolution, within the investigated area, of the dataset makes it highly suitable for various detailed hydrological and ecological studies on catchment scale.

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