Coupled cryo-hydrogeological modelling of permafrost dynamics near Umiujaq (Nunavik, Canada)

• Published in: Hydrogeology Journal
• Main Authors: Therrien, René, Lemieux, Jean-Michel, Dagenais, Sophie, Fortier, Richard, Molson, John W. H. (John William H.)
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 2020
• Subjects: Groundwater flow; Permafrost; Climate change; Numerical modelling; Canada; Eau souterraine; Pergélisols; Modèles mathématiques; Flux géothermique; Nunavik; Umiujaq; Active layer thickness; Ice; permafrost; pergélisol
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/38750; https://doi.org/10.1007/s10040-020-02111-3

A two-dimensional (2D) cryo-hydrogeological numerical model of groundwater flow, coupled with advective-conductive heat transport with phase change, has been developed to study permafrost dynamics around an ice-rich permafrost mound in the Tasiapik Valley near Umiujaq, Nunavik (Québec), Canada. Perm...