Hydrologic impacts of thawing permafrost—A review

MA Walvoord, BL Kurylyk - Vadose Zone Journal, 2016 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Where present, permafrost exerts a primary control on water fluxes, flowpaths, and
distribution. Climate warming and related drivers of soil thermal change are expected to …

Arctic terrestrial hydrology: A synthesis of processes, regional effects, and research challenges

A Bring, I Fedorova, Y Dibike, L Hinzman… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Terrestrial hydrology is central to the Arctic system and its freshwater circulation. Water
transport and water constituents vary, however, across a very diverse geography. In this …

Reviews and syntheses: Effects of permafrost thaw on Arctic aquatic ecosystems

JE Vonk, SE Tank, WB Bowden, I Laurion… - …, 2015 - bg.copernicus.org
The Arctic is a water-rich region, with freshwater systems covering about 16% of the northern
permafrost landscape. Permafrost thaw creates new freshwater ecosystems, while at the …

The mathematical representation of freezing and thawing processes in variably-saturated, non-deformable soils

BL Kurylyk, K Watanabe - Advances in Water Resources, 2013 - Elsevier
Recently, there has been a revival in the development of models simulating coupled heat
and water transport in cold regions. These models represent significant advances in our …

Tracking dynamic northern surface water changes with high-frequency planet CubeSat imagery

SW Cooley, LC Smith, L Stepan, J Mascaro - Remote Sensing, 2017 - mdpi.com
Recent deployments of CubeSat imagers by companies such as Planet may advance
hydrological remote sensing by providing an unprecedented combination of high temporal …

Groundwater as a major source of dissolved organic matter to Arctic coastal waters

CT Connolly, MB Cardenas, GA Burkart… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Groundwater is projected to become an increasing source of freshwater and nutrients to the
Arctic Ocean as permafrost thaws, yet few studies have quantified groundwater inputs to …

Multiscale geophysical imaging of the critical zone

AD Parsekian, K Singha, BJ Minsley… - Reviews of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Details of Earth's shallow subsurface—a key component of the critical zone (CZ)—are
largely obscured because making direct observations with sufficient density to capture …

Biodegradability of dissolved organic carbon in permafrost soils and aquatic systems: a meta-analysis

JE Vonk, SE Tank, PJ Mann, RGM Spencer… - …, 2015 - bg.copernicus.org
As Arctic regions warm and frozen soils thaw, the large organic carbon pool stored in
permafrost becomes increasingly vulnerable to decomposition or transport. The transfer of …

The transpolar drift as a source of riverine and shelf‐derived trace elements to the central Arctic Ocean

MA Charette, LE Kipp, LT Jensen… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A major surface circulation feature of the Arctic Ocean is the Transpolar Drift (TPD), a current
that transports river‐influenced shelf water from the Laptev and East Siberian Seas toward …