Controls and implications of source-to-sink environmental fluxes in selected cold climate environments

Abstract

This Thematic Issue on Controls and implications of source-to-sink environmental fluxes in selected cold climate environments produced by the I.A.G./A.I.G. SEDIBUD (Sediment Budgets in Cold Environments) working group (http://www.geomorph.org/sedibud-working-group/) presents a selection of papers that were presented and discussed during the 10th I.A.G./A.I.G. SEDIBUDWorkshop onMonitoring of geomorphological processes in cold environments under climate change held 7– 10 September 2016 in Bansko, Bulgaria. Complex relationships exist between climate, vegetation cover and the dynamics of geomorphological Earth surface systems. Environmental changes have significant impacts on these relationships and on Earth surface system dynamics. The studies presented in this Thematic Issue collectively represent a cross section of latest research activities on drivers and implications of such relationships and environmental fluxes from different cold climate environments. Most of them concern the manifestation of hazardous processes and provide important results from their direct monitoring. The selected work covers cold environments in Norway, Romania and South Africa.