Roles of groundwater processes in the evolution of complex landscape of discontinuous permafrost

• Main Authors: Rivière, Agnès, Hayashi, Masaki, Quinton, William
• Other Authors: Centre de Géosciences (GEOSCIENCES), Mines Paris - PSL (École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), University of Calgary, Wilfrid Laurier University (WLU), McGill University = Université McGill Montréal, Canada, Joint Annual Meeting with CMOS and CWRA
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2013
• Subjects: Scotty creek; permafrost; simulation; Hydrology; Cold Regions Processes; [SDU.ENVI]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces; environment; [SDU.STU.HY]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Hydrology; Canada; Hay River; Northwest Territories; Scotty Creek; Peat
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01396653

International audience The Hay River Lowland in the Northwest Territories is a 140,000 km 2 region of discontinuous and sporadic permafrost with a high density of peatlands. The landcover consists of permafrost plateaus, channel fens, and ombrotrophic flat bogs, occurring as a complex mosaic of patc...