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Author : Flugel, W.-A.
Date : 1983.
Title : Summer water balance of a High Arctic catchment area with underlying permafrost in Oobloyah Valley, N-Ellesmere Island, N.W.T., Canada
Publication : Permafrost : Fourth International Conference, proceedings, July 17-22, 1983. - Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press.
Issue :
Page(s) : 295-300
Abstract
The water balance of Oobloyah Valley, N-Ellesmere Island, N.W.T., Canada, a high arctic catchment area underlying [sic] by permafrost was investigated during the arctic summer 1978. The following results will be presented: (1) three main hydrogeological areas with different sediments, thawing depths, and soil drainage were separated; (2) most of the winter snow cover melted until July 1, thereafter soil thawing and its drainage began; (3) the periglacial streams never had a measureable sediment load, not even during snow melt; (4) considering daily discharges, climatic changes and soil water balance the hydrologic regimes of the three investigated streams were characterized; and (5) summer water balance must include frozen soil water stored in the year(s) before; snow and rain add up to 51% of the total balance, glaciers contribute up to 48% and actual evapotranspiration is only 1%.
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