Tracking hydrological responses of a thermokarst lake in the Old Crow Flats (Yukon Territory, Canada) to recent climate variability using aerial photographs and paleolimnological methods

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 117-129

  Macdonald, Lauren A ^a   Turner, Kevin W ^b   Balasubramaniam, Ann M ^a   Wolfe, Brent B ^b   Hall, Roland I ^a   Sweetman, Jon N ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c PARKS CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arctic hydrology; Lake drainage events; Old Crow Flats; Paleolimnology; Remote sensing; Thermokarst lakes

Indexed keywords

AERIAL IMAGES; AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS; ARCTIC HYDROLOGY; BIOLOGICAL PARAMETER; CARBON ISOTOPES; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CLIMATIC VARIATION; EXPANSION PHASE; HYDROLOGICAL CONDITION; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; LAKE LEVELS; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; OLD CROW FLATS; ORGANIC MATTER CONTENT; OXYGEN ISOTOPE COMPOSITION; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; PIGMENT CONCENTRATION; PREVIOUS YEAR; REMOTE SENSING ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT CORE; STABLE PHASE; SUMMER RAINFALL; SURFACE AREA; TRACK CHANGES;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CLIMATOLOGY; EROSION; EVAPORATION; ISOTOPES; ORGANIC CARBON; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PHOTOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; TIME SERIES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WATER LEVELS;

LAKES;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE VARIATION; EVAPORATION; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LAKE LEVEL; LAKE WATER; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC MATTER; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; PIGMENT; REMOTE SENSING; SEDIMENT CORE; STRATIGRAPHY; THERMOKARST; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WATER LEVEL;

CANADA; OLD CROW; YUKON TERRITORY;

EID: 84855187058     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.8116     Document Type: Article

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