Recent changes to Arctic river discharge

Dongmei Feng; Colin J. Gleason; Peirong Lin; Xiao Yang; Ming Pan; Yuta Ishitsuka

doi:10.1038/s41467-021-27228-1

Nature Communications (Nov 2021)

Recent changes to Arctic river discharge

Dongmei Feng,
Colin J. Gleason,
Peirong Lin,
Xiao Yang,
Ming Pan,
Yuta Ishitsuka

Affiliations

Dongmei Feng: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Massachusetts
Colin J. Gleason: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Massachusetts
Peirong Lin: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University
Xiao Yang: Department of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ming Pan: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University
Yuta Ishitsuka: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Massachusetts

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27228-1
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The authors combine satellite data with hydrologic models to investigate recent changes in pan-Arctic river discharge magnitude, trends, and seasonality for nearly half a million rivers. They reveal that these rivers likely exported 3-17% more water to the global ocean than previously thought from 1984-2018.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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