Hydrology of a Small Drainage Basin with Polar Oasis Environment, Fosheim Peninsula, Ellesmere Island, Canada

The Canadian High Arctic is studded with many oases among an otherwise barren polar desert environment. This study examined the hydrological response of a small (130 km2) catchment to the climatic and vegetation conditions special to the polar oasis environment. Hot Weather Creek basin is located on Fosheim Peninsula, Ellesmere Island, which is protected in summer from the inroad of cold air from the Arctic Ocean and sheltered from many storms. …