Short Communication Over-Winter Channel Bed Temperature Regimes Generated by Contrasting Snow Accumulation in a High Arctic River

• Published in: Permafrost and Periglacial Processes
• Main Authors: Bonnaventure, Philip P., Lamoureux, Scott F., Favaro, Elena A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: River Channel; Temperature at the Top of Permafrost; N-factors; Biological Refugia; Snow; Cape Bounty; Arctic; Canada; permafrost; Melville Island
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1974/14586; https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp.1902

We report experimental results of near-surface winter temperatures along and adjacent to the channel bed of a High Arctic river on Melville Island, Canada. Temperature loggers 5cm below the ground surface in areas where the terrain suggests varying snow accumulation patterns revealed that the maximu...