Geocryological processes linked to High Arctic proglacial stream suspended sediment dynamics: Examples from Bylot Island, Nunavut, and Spitsbergen, Svalbard

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 115-135

  Irvine Fynn, T D L ^a   Moorman, B J ^a   Willis, I C ^b   Sjogren, D B ^a   Hodson, A J ^c   Mumford, P N ^c   Walter, F S A ^a   Williams, J L M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Change point analysis; Geocryological processes; High Arctic glaciers; Principal component analysis; Proglacial streams; Suspended sediment concentration

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENTS;

ALPINE CATCHMENTS; GEOCRYOLOGICAL PROCESSES; PROGLACIAL STREAMS; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT CONCENTRATION (SSC) DYNAMICS;

HYDROLOGY;

PERIGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STREAM CHANNEL; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; BYLOT ISLAND; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; NUNAVUT; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 13644259320     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.5759     Document Type: Article

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