Multi-year landscape-scale assessment of lakewater balances in the Slave River Delta, NWT, using water isotope tracers

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 379, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 81-91

  Brock, Bronwyn E ^a   Yi, Yi ^a   Clogg Wright, Kenneth P ^a   Edwards, Thomas W D ^a   Wolfe, Brent B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Isotope hydrology; Lakewater balance; Landscape hydrology; Northern freshwater ecosystems; Water resource management

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE WARMING; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; FRESH WATER RESOURCES; HYDROCLIMATIC; HYDROLOGICAL PROCESS; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; ISOTOPE TRACERS; KEY COMPONENT; LAKEWATER BALANCE; LANDSCAPE HYDROLOGY; LANDSCAPE-SCALE ASSESSMENTS; MONITORING PERIODS; NORTHERN FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS; ONSHORE WINDS; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; RIVER DELTAS; RIVER DISCHARGE; RIVER FLOODING; SNOWMELT RUNOFF; SPRING BREAK-UP; SPRUCE FOREST; WATER BALANCE; WATER ISOTOPE; WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; WATER VAPOUR;

COASTAL ZONES; ECOSYSTEMS; EVAPORATION; HYDROLOGY; ISOTOPES; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RIVERS; RUNOFF; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; VAPORS; WATER LEVELS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER VAPOR;

LAKES;

ANNUAL VARIATION; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DRAWDOWN; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; EVAPORATION; FLOODING; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; INFLOW; LAKE WATER; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; RIVER DISCHARGE; SNOWMELT; TRACER; WARMING; WATER BUDGET; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE; WATERSHED;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHWEST TERRITORIES; SLAVE DELTA;

PICEA;

EID: 70350605796     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2009.09.046     Document Type: Article

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