caa a22 4500 467903867 CHVBK 20180406152827.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10661-005-9080-x doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10661-005-9080-x Climate Change, Flow Regulation and Land-Use Effects on the Hydrology of the Peace-Athabasca-Slave System; Findings from the Northern Rivers Ecosystem Initiative [Elektronische Daten] [T. Prowse, S. Beltaos, J. Gardner, J. Gibson, R. Granger, R. Leconte, D. Peters, A. Pietroniro, L. Romolo, B. Toth] The Northern Rivers Ecosystem Initiative (NREI) was established in the late 1990s to address important science questions resulting from previous studies undertaken by the Northern Rivers Basin Study (NRBS). This manuscript summarizes the results from a number of reports on hydrologic research conducted on the Peace-Athabasca-Slave river and lake systems. Specific concerns expressed by the NRBS and subsequent NREI focused on how these systems were being affected by climate change, flow regulation and land-use changes. Issues addressed in this report include: the fate of aquatic perched basins within the Peace-Athabasca Delta under historical and future climate trends; the sources of major floods that replenish these basins and how the frequency, magnitude and source areas of such events have changed over time; the synoptic weather patterns and atmospheric teleconnections that are responsible for the generation of major snowmelt runoff that drive major floods; the potential effect that climate and land-use changes might have on basin runoff and delta lake levels; the specific hydro-climatic conditions required to produce major ice-jam floods on the Peace River and how these may be altered by climate change; remote-sensing methods to document delta flooding and vegetation change; and the dual effect of climate and flow regulation on the water levels of Great Slave Lake and how these may affect other nearshore processes, particularly wind seiches, that influence flooding of the Slave River Delta. A review of the major findings and recommendations for future research concludes the report. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006 climate change nationallicence delta nationallicence floods nationallicence flow regulation nationallicence ice jam nationallicence land-use changes nationallicence northern rivers nationallicence synoptic climatology nationallicence water balance nationallicence Prowse T. Water and Climate Impacts Research Centre, National Water Research Institute @ University of Victoria, STN CSC, PO Box 1700, Victoria, BC, Canada aut Beltaos S. National Water Research Institute, Environment Canada, Burlington, ON, Canada aut Gardner J. Department of Geography, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada aut Gibson J. Water and Climate Impacts Research Centre, National Water Research Institute @ University of Victoria, STN CSC, PO Box 1700, Victoria, BC, Canada aut Granger R. National Water Research Institute, Environment Canada, Saskatoon, SK, Canada aut Leconte R. École de technologie supérieure, Montreal, QC, Canada aut Peters D. Water and Climate Impacts Research Centre, National Water Research Institute @ University of Victoria, STN CSC, PO Box 1700, Victoria, BC, Canada aut Pietroniro A. National Water Research Institute, Environment Canada, Saskatoon, SK, Canada aut Romolo L. Southern Regional Climate Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA aut Toth B. National Water Research Institute, Environment Canada, Saskatoon, SK, Canada aut Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Kluwer Academic Publishers 113/1-3(2006-02-01), 167-197 0167-6369 113:1-3<167 2006 113 10661 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-005-9080-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-005-9080-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Prowse T. Water and Climate Impacts Research Centre, National Water Research Institute @ University of Victoria, STN CSC, PO Box 1700, Victoria, BC, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Beltaos S. National Water Research Institute, Environment Canada, Burlington, ON, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Gardner J. Department of Geography, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Gibson J. Water and Climate Impacts Research Centre, National Water Research Institute @ University of Victoria, STN CSC, PO Box 1700, Victoria, BC, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Granger R. National Water Research Institute, Environment Canada, Saskatoon, SK, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Leconte R. École de technologie supérieure, Montreal, QC, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Peters D. Water and Climate Impacts Research Centre, National Water Research Institute @ University of Victoria, STN CSC, PO Box 1700, Victoria, BC, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Pietroniro A. National Water Research Institute, Environment Canada, Saskatoon, SK, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Romolo L. Southern Regional Climate Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Toth B. National Water Research Institute, Environment Canada, Saskatoon, SK, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Kluwer Academic Publishers 113/1-3(2006-02-01), 167-197 0167-6369 113:1-3<167 2006 113 10661 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer