Streamflow in the Mackenzie Basin, Canada

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Woo, Ming-Ko, Thorne, Robin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 2003
• Subjects: streamflow; regimes; Mackenzie River; climate change; streamflow variability; peakflow; écoulement fluvial; régimes; fleuve Mackenzie; changement climatique; variabilité de l'écoulemenet fluvial; débit de pointe; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Canada; Fleuve Mackenzie; Grand lac des Esclaves; Liard; Rivers Peak; Arctique*; Climate change; glacier*; Grand Lac des Esclaves; Mackenzie Basin; Mackenzie river; Esclave*
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/63689

Rivers of the Mackenzie Basin exhibit several seasonal flow patterns that include the nival (snowmelt dominated), proglacial (influenced by glacier melt), wetland, prolacustrine (below large lakes), and regulated flow regimes. The Mackenzie amalgamates and moderates these regimes to deliver spring p...