Hydrology of Snow-filled Arctic Stream Valleys

Régions: Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut

étiquettes: physical sciences, hydrology, flooding, snow, snowmelt

chercheur principal: Heron, Richard (2)
Nᵒ de permis: 10084
Organisation: Department of Geography, University of Windsor
Année(s) de permis: 1993 1990
Délivré: janv. 01, 1990
Équipe de projet: Chris Culver

Objectif(s): to install instruments in large snowdrifts across stream channels; to monitor the sites daily from the beginning of snowmelt until the drifts are breached by the streams; to monitor the effects of rapid failure on flooding downstream

Description du projet: Dr. Heron and his assistant will install monitoring devices in snowdrifts which block stream channels. This study will examine these snowdrifts and the way in which they break, since rapid thawing may cause flooding downstream. This project is a continuation of work begun in 1989.