Downstream patterns of suspended sediment transport in a High Arctic river influenced by permafrost disturbance and recent climate change

• Main Authors: Favaro, Elena J., Lamoureux, Scott F.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Arctic; Hysteresis; Sediment Budget; Sediment Storage; Nunavut; Cape Bounty; Climate change; Ice; permafrost; Melville Island
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1974/14034

Spatially and temporally variable suspended sediment transport from upstream sources was investigated in the West River (unofficial name) at the Cape Bounty Arctic Watershed Observatory (CBAWO) on Melville Island, Nunavut (74°55′ N, 109°35′ W), a river with nearly a decade of hydrological and sedime...