AGU Journal highlights -- Jan. 10, 2008

Lengthening plus shortening of river-to-lake connection times in the Mackenzie River Delta respectively via two global change mechanisms along the arctic coast

Authors: Lance F. W. Lesack: Departments of Geography and Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada;

Philip Marsh: National Water Research Institute, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Source: Geophysical Research Letters (GRL) paper 10.1029/2007GL031656, 2007; http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2007GL031656

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