Thawing of the active layer on the coastal plain of the Alaskan arctic

Permafrost and Periglacial Processes

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-22

  Romanovsky, V E ^a   Osterkamp, T E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

Active layer; Modelling; Permafrost; Trace gases

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001941835     PISSN: 10456740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1530(199701)8:1<1::aid-ppp243>3.0.co;2-u     Document Type: Article

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