Athabasca River Avulsion Underway in the Peace-Athabasca Delta, Canada

• Main Authors: Wang, Bo, Smith, Laurence C., Gleason, Colin, Kyzivat, Ethan D., Fayne, Jessica V., Harlan, Merritt E., Langhorst, Theodore, Feng, Dongmei, Eidam, Emily, Munoz, Sebastian, Davis, Julianne, Pavelsky, Tamlin M., Peters, Daniel L.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Alberta Research Council, ARC/AGS Open File Report 2023
• Subjects: avulsion; inland delta; Google Earth Engine; remote sensing; SWOT; Peace-Athabasca River Delta; Natural Resources and Environment; Science; Athabasca River; Canada; Embarras; Embarras River; Mamawi Creek; Peace-Athabasca Delta
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/175946; https://doi.org/10.1029/2022WR034114

Avulsions change river courses and transport water and sediment to new channels impacting infrastructure, floodplain evolution, and ecosystems. Abrupt avulsion events (occurring over days to weeks) are potentially catastrophic to society and thus receive more attention than slow avulsions, which dev...