Summer rainfall DOC, solute and sediment fluxes in a small Arctic coastal catchment on Herschel Island (Yukon Territory, Canada)

• Main Authors: Coch, Caroline, Lamoureux, Scott F., Knoblauch, Christian, Eischeid, Isabell, Fritz, Michael, Obu, Jaroslav, Lantuit, Hugues
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: NRC Research Press (a division of Canadian Science Publishing) 2018
• Subjects: Arctic; Yukon; Canada; Herschel Island; Climate change; Herschel
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/93894; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/AS-2018-0010

Coastal ecosystems in the Arctic are affected by climate change. As summer rainfall frequency and intensity are projected to increase in the future, more organic matter, nutrients and sediment could be mobilized and transported into the coastal nearshore zones. However, knowledge of current processe...