Effects of Changes in Arctic Lake and River Ice

• Published in: AMBIO
• Main Authors: Prowse, Terry, Alfredsen, Knut, Beltaos, Spyros, Bonsal, Barrie R., Bowden, William B., Duguay, Claude R., Korhola, Atte, McNamara, Jim, Vincent, Warwick F., Vuglinsky, Valery, Walter Anthony, Katey M., Weyhenmeyer, Gesa A.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Netherlands 2012
• Subjects: Article; Arctic; Arctic Lake
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3357771; https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-011-0217-6

Climatic changes to freshwater ice in the Arctic are projected to produce a variety of effects on hydrologic, ecological, and socio-economic systems. Key hydrologic impacts include changes to low flows, lake evaporation regimes and water levels, and river-ice break-up severity and timing. The latter...