Spatial and temporal variability in active layer thickness over the Russian Arctic drainage basin

Journal of Geophysical Research D: Atmospheres

Volumn 110, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 1-14

  Zhang, Tingjun ^a   Frauenfeld, Oliver W ^a   Serreze, Mark C ^a   Etringer, Andrew ^a   Oelke, Christoph ^b   McCreight, James ^a   Barry, Roger G ^a   Gilichinsky, David ^c   Yang, Daqing ^d   Ye, Hengchun ^e   Ling, Feng ^f   Chudinova, Svetlana ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICOCHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL PROBLEMS IN SOIL SCIENCE   (Russian Federation)

^d University of Alaska Fairbanks   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f ZHAOQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DRAINAGE BASIN; GLOBAL WARMING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMAFROST; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; WORLD;

EID: 26444506202     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004JD005642     Document Type: Article

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