Changes in the Regimes of Glacial and Permafrost-Influenced Watersheds in the High Arctic
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Hydrology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 June 2025 | Viewed by 27
Special Issue Editors
Interests: fluvial geomorpholy; channel flow hydraulics and hydrodynamic; fluvial transport; polar regions; Svalbard
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Dear Colleagues,
The aim of this volume is to present recent research results on the conditions of river systems in High Arctic areas with different sources of supply. In the planned volume, we wish to discuss the trends and dynamics of water outflow in rivers with glacial, snowmelt and permafrost hydrological regimes during periods of observed rapid environmental changes. Furthermore, it is also of great interest to determine the role of snowmelt and complex floods in water and sediment transport. Another key issue concerns the degradation of permafrost and its contribution to surface runoff and the entire water balance of the Arctic catchments. This is widely presented in the scientific literature, and requires comparative and critical approaches.
The scope of discussion in this Special Issue will include, but is not limited to, the following:
- Arctic hydrological processes changes at different scales;
- Surface and river runoff;
- Permafrost degradation and overland flow;
- Arctic river hydrological regime changes;
- Arctic river flow dynamics and changes;
- Changes in river geochemistry;
- Summertime river flow conditions;
- Hydrodynamics and hydraulics of channel flow;
- Stream network development.
Dr. Grzegorz Janicki
Dr. Łukasz Franczak
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- proglacial catchment hydrology and hydrochemistry
- glacial, snowmelt, permafrost and mixed-river regime
- river flow dynamics and variability
- rainfall and snowmelt floods
- river and overland runoff
- foodplain and channel morphology
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