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    The Arctic freshwater system : changes and impacts

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    Date
    2007-11-20
    Author
    White, Daniel  Concept link
    Hinzman, Larry  Concept link
    Alessa, Lilian  Concept link
    Cassano, John  Concept link
    Chambers, Molly  Concept link
    Falkner, Kelly  Concept link
    Francis, Jennifer  Concept link
    Gutowski, William J.  Concept link
    Holland, Marika M.  Concept link
    Holmes, Robert M.  Concept link
    Huntington, Henry  Concept link
    Kane, Douglas  Concept link
    Kliskey, Andrew  Concept link
    Lee, Craig M.  Concept link
    McClelland, James W.  Concept link
    Peterson, Bruce J.  Concept link
    Rupp, T. Scott  Concept link
    Straneo, Fiamma  Concept link
    Steele, Michael  Concept link
    Woodgate, Rebecca  Concept link
    Yang, Daqing  Concept link
    Yoshikawa, Kenji  Concept link
    Zhang, Tingjun  Concept link
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    https://hdl.handle.net/1912/3763
    As published
    https://doi.org/10.1029/2006JG000353
    DOI
    10.1029/2006JG000353
    Keyword
     Arctic; Freshwater; System; Changes; Impacts 
    Abstract
    Dramatic changes have been observed in the Arctic over the last century. Many of these involve the storage and cycling of fresh water. On land, precipitation and river discharge, lake abundance and size, glacier area and volume, soil moisture, and a variety of permafrost characteristics have changed. In the ocean, sea ice thickness and areal coverage have decreased and water mass circulation patterns have shifted, changing freshwater pathways and sea ice cover dynamics. Precipitation onto the ocean surface has also changed. Such changes are expected to continue, and perhaps accelerate, in the coming century, enhanced by complex feedbacks between the oceanic, atmospheric, and terrestrial freshwater systems. Change to the arctic freshwater system heralds changes for our global physical and ecological environment as well as human activities in the Arctic. In this paper we review observed changes in the arctic freshwater system over the last century in terrestrial, atmospheric, and oceanic systems.
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    Author Posting. © American Geophysical Union, 2007. This article is posted here by permission of American Geophysical Union for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Journal of Geophysical Research 112 (2007): G04S54, doi:10.1029/2006JG000353.
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    Journal of Geophysical Research 112 (2007): G04S54
     

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