The Water Balance of a Small Pond in the High Arctic
Tundra ponds are ubiquitous features in the High Arctic. The water balance of one such pond situated on Ellesmere Island was found to be dependent upon the groundwater supplies from the internally-drained basin in which it was located. For the basin as a whole, evaporation constituted an important c...
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ftunivcalgaryojs:oai:journalhosting.ucalgary.ca:article/65743 2023-05-15T14:19:18+02:00 The Water Balance of a Small Pond in the High Arctic Marsh, P. Woo, M.K. 1977-01-01 application/pdf https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65743 eng eng The Arctic Institute of North America https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65743/49657 https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65743 ARCTIC; Vol. 30 No. 2 (1977): June: 69–132; 109-117 1923-1245 0004-0843 Evaporation Groundwater Permafrost beneath lakes Rain Water resources Frozen ground Active layer Ellesmere Island Nunavut info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion research-article 1977 ftunivcalgaryojs 2022-03-22T21:22:45Z Tundra ponds are ubiquitous features in the High Arctic. The water balance of one such pond situated on Ellesmere Island was found to be dependent upon the groundwater supplies from the internally-drained basin in which it was located. For the basin as a whole, evaporation constituted an important component of the water balance, accounting for over 90 per cent of the rainfall over a summer period of less than six weeks. Changes occurring in the quantity of water in the pond in response to rainfall were found to depend upon the degree of saturation of the active layer of the underlying permafrost. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Ellesmere Island Nunavut permafrost Tundra University of Calgary Journal Hosting Arctic Ellesmere Island Nunavut ARCTIC 30 2 |
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Tundra ponds are ubiquitous features in the High Arctic. The water balance of one such pond situated on Ellesmere Island was found to be dependent upon the groundwater supplies from the internally-drained basin in which it was located. For the basin as a whole, evaporation constituted an important component of the water balance, accounting for over 90 per cent of the rainfall over a summer period of less than six weeks. Changes occurring in the quantity of water in the pond in response to rainfall were found to depend upon the degree of saturation of the active layer of the underlying permafrost. |
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The Water Balance of a Small Pond in the High Arctic |
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The Water Balance of a Small Pond in the High Arctic |
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The Water Balance of a Small Pond in the High Arctic |
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The Water Balance of a Small Pond in the High Arctic |
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The Arctic Institute of North America |
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