Grand River Keeper Labrador has been keeping a keen eye on the weather patterns and hydrology of the Artic regions for several years given our proximity in Canada’s north. This region, often considered as sub-arctic has several common characteristics pertaining to climate, ecological features, and proximity to oceans The Arctic Ocean flow into the Atlantic […]
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n September 2000, a workshop was convened to identify several notable gaps in our current level of understanding of arctic hydrological systems. The primary goal of this workshop was to assess the current state of the art in arctic systems hydrology and identify the appropriate roles that NSF-ARCSS could play in supporting the relevant science.
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e. As the Arctic warms, ice (both
terrestrial ice and snow, and sea ice) melts, amplifying warmth. And with the loss of terrestrial ice, sea level rises. Because the feedback processes responsible for the observed Arctic amplifica tion in the past remain active today, it is very likely that Arctic amplification will continue for the foreseeable future, With this amplification, sea ice will continue to contract, and glaciers and ice sheets will experience accelerated melting, with concomitant increases in the rate of sea level rise.
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The arctic climate is defined by a low amount or absence
of sunlight in winter and long days during summer, with
significant spatial and temporal variation. The sensitivities of
snow and ice regimes to small temperature increases and
of cold oceans to small changes in salinity are processes
that could contribute to unusually large and rapid climate change in the Arctic.
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