Water tracks in the High Arctic: A hydrological network dominated by rapid subsurface flow through patterned ground

• Main Authors: Paquette, Michel, Fortier, Daniel, Vincent, Warwick
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: NRC Research Press (a division of Canadian Science Publishing) 2017
• Subjects: Arctic; Hunt Island; Ward Hunt Island; Antarc*; Antarctica; permafrost; polar desert; Alaska
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/77502; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/AS-2016-0014

Water tracks play a major role in the headwater basin hydrology of permafrost landscapes in Alaska and Antarctica, but less is known about these features in the High Arctic. We examined the physical and hydrological properties of water tracks on Ward Hunt Island, a polar desert site in the Canadian...