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Coch, Caroline; Lamoureux, Scott F; Knoblauch, Christian; Eischeid, Isabell; Fritz, Michael; Obu, Jaroslav; Lantuit, Hugues (2018): Measured discharge, hydrochemical parameters and computed fluxes (DOC, DN, solutes, suspended sediment) of a small Low Arctic watershed on Herschel Island (2014-2016) [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.888180, Supplement to: Coch, C et al. (2018): Summer rainfall DOC, solute and sediment fluxes in a small Arctic coastal catchment on Herschel Island (Yukon Territory, Canada). Arctic Science, https://doi.org/10.1139/AS-2018-0010

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Abstract:
Coastal ecosystems in the Arctic are affected by climate change. As summer rainfall frequency and intensity are projected to increase in the future, more organic matter, nutrients and sediment could be mobilized and transported into the coastal nearshore zones. However, knowledge of current processes and future changes is limited. We investigated streamflow dynamics and the impacts of summer rainfall on lateral fluxes in a small coastal catchment on Herschel Island in the western Canadian Arctic. For the summer monitoring periods of 2014-16, mean dissolved organic matter (DOM) flux over 17 days amounted to 82.7 ± 30.7 kg km**-2 and mean total dissolved solids flux to 5252 ± 1224 kg km-2. Flux of suspended sediment (SS) were 7245 kg km**-2 in 2015, and 369 kg km**-2 in 2016. We found that 2.0 % of SS was composed of particulate organic carbon. Data and hysteresis analysis suggests a limited supply of sediments; their interannual variability is most likely caused by short-lived localized disturbances. In contrast, our results imply that DOC is widely available throughout the catchment and exhibits positive linear relationship with runoff. We hypothesize that increased projected rainfall in the future will result in a similar increase of DOC fluxes.
Project(s):
Permafrost Research (Periglacial Dynamics) @ AWI (AWI_PerDyn)
Coverage:
Latitude: 69.576313 * Longitude: -138.898966
Date/Time Start: 2014-07-31T19:29:00 * Date/Time End: 2015-09-13T21:00:00
Event(s):
Ice_Creek_West * Latitude: 69.576310 * Longitude: -138.898960 * Location: Herschel Island, Yukon Territory, Canada * Method/Device: Automatic water sampler (ISCO 3700) (AWS_ISCO)
Comment:
Water samples were collected at the outflow of Ice Creek West on Herschel Island, Yukon Territory, Canada in the summers of 2014, 2015 and 2016 using an automatic water sampler (ISCO 3700).
License:
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-3.0)
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Datasets listed in this publication series

  1. Coch, C; Lamoureux, SF; Knoblauch, C et al. (2018): Flux summary of measured hydrochemical parameters and statistics on concentrations for 2014, 2015 and 2016. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.888179
  2. Coch, C; Lamoureux, SF; Knoblauch, C et al. (2018): Hydrochemistry of a small Low Arctic watershed on Herschel Island (2014). https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.888177
  3. Coch, C; Lamoureux, SF; Knoblauch, C et al. (2018): Hydrochemistry of a small Low Arctic watershed on Herschel Island (2015). https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.888178
  4. Coch, C; Lamoureux, SF; Knoblauch, C et al. (2018): Discharge of a small Low Arctic watershed on Herschel Island (2014). https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.888175
  5. Coch, C; Lamoureux, SF; Knoblauch, C et al. (2018): Discharge of a small Low Arctic watershed on Herschel Island (2015). https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.888406