The lower limit of mountain permafrost in the Russian Altai Mountains

Permafrost and Periglacial Processes

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 129-136

  Fukui, Kotaro ^a   Fujii, Yoshiyuki ^a   Mikhailov, Nikolai ^b   Ostanin, Oleg ^b   Iwahana, Go ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b ALTAI STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Climate change; Ice wedge polygon; Mountain permafrost; Pingo; Rock glacier; Russian Altai

Indexed keywords

COLD AIR; PERMAFROST; PINGO; ROCK GLACIER; SNOW COVER;

ALTAY; EURASIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 34250776051     PISSN: 10456740     EISSN: 10991530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ppp.585     Document Type: Article

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