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Title: Instantaneous discharge, suspended sediment, and organic carbon fluxes in the Canning River, Alaska, June-July 2022 and July-August 2023
This dataset contains measurements of river discharge, suspended sediment, and organic carbon fluxes in the Canning River, Alaska during one field campaign from 28 June to 10 July 2022 and a second field campaign from 21 July to 2 August 2023. The purpose of this dataset is to demonstrate the impact of summer convective storms on river suspended sediment and particulate organic carbon fluxes in Arctic Rivers. During the 2022 field campaign, we rafted down the Canning River starting on the upper Canning within the headwaters and ending near the mouth at the Beaufort Sea coast. During this campaign, we selected five locations along the active channel to conduct Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) surveys to measure river discharge and sample the river water for suspended sediment and particulate organic carbon, where T1 is the farthest upstream transect and T5 is the farthest downstream. During the 2023 field campaign, we collected instantaneous river discharge measurements of the Canning River in the headwaters at the Marsh Fork Bench Airstrip, at the Staines Airstrip, and on the Staines branch of the Canning River delta. We observed several thunderstorms during these field campaigns, during which the river water level and suspended load increased dramatically, prompting us to sample river suspended sediment during these events. This dataset includes ADCP measurements of river water discharge, suspended sediment concentrations, particulate and dissolved organic carbon concentrations, woody debris flux measurements, and estimates of instantaneous fluxes.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2419995
PAR ID:
10555499
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Publisher / Repository:
NSF Arctic Data Center
Date Published:
Subject(s) / Keyword(s):
FRESH WATER RIVER DISCHARGE SUSPENDED SOLIDS CONVECTIVE PRECIPITATION ORGANIC CARBON RIVERS/STREAM PERMAFROST RUNOFF
Format(s):
Medium: X Other: text/xml
Location:
Canning River, Alaska
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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