Drained thermokarst lake basins accumulate significant amounts of soil organic carbon in the form of peat, which is of interest to understanding carbon cycling and climate change feedbacks associated with thermokarst in the Arctic. Remote sensing is a tool useful for understanding temporal and spatial dynamics of drained basins. In this study, we tested the application of high-resolution X-band...

This paper presents initial investigations of a new approach to monitor ecosystem processes in complex terrain on large scales. Metabolic processes in mountainous ecosystems are poorly represented in current ecosystem monitoring campaigns because the methods used for monitoring metabolism at the ecosystem scale (e.g., eddy covariance) require flat study sites. Our goal was to investigate the po...

The open source 30 m Copernicus DEM (COP-DEM) has been used to derive the geo-morphometric and topo-hydrological characteristics of Betwa River Basin. Drainage network with 7th order stream mostly dendritic pattern delineated using Strahler’s method. drainage density, frequency, form factor, length overland flow circulatory ratio basin were computed as 0.38 Km/Km2, 0.08 Km−2, 0.23, 1.31, 0.20, ...

Fractality of drainage basins is shown by their tiling properties with subbasins and interbasin areas. Drainage basin forms projected on the two-dimensional plane have mathematical properties similar to those of one-dimensional quasicrystals. Fractal drainage basins are divided into self-similar subbasins and interbasin areas to the infinitesimal limits of their sizes while one-dimensional quas...