Permafrost and infrastructure in the Usa Basin (Northeast European Russia): Possible impacts of global warming

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Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 289-294

  Mazhitova, Galina ^a   Karstkarel, Nanka ^b   Oberman, Naum ^c,d   Romanovsky, Vladimir ^e   Kuhry, Peter ^f,g  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c Komi Terr Ctr State Monitoring G   (Russian Federation)

^d MIREKO Company   (Russian Federation)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LAPLAND   (Finland)

^g STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING; GLOBAL WARMING; INFRASTRUCTURE; PERMAFROST; THAWING;

EURASIA; KOMI; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; USA BASIN;

EID: 4344706596     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447-33.6.289     Document Type: Article

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23. The PERUSA (PERmafrost in the USA Basin: Distribution, Characterization, Dynamics and Effects on Infrastructure) project was supported by grant INTAS-OPEN-97-10984. The authors wish to thank Irina Shesler (Polyarnouralgeologia, Vorkuta) for her assistance in the development of the permafrost map, Eugene Lopatin (Forest High Educational Institution, Syktyvkar) who conducted most of the work related to developing the permafrost GIS, and Wolfgang Partel (University of Innsbruck) who carried out the analysis of the time series of remote sensing images. Figure 1 was kindly provided by Kari Mikkola and Tarmo Virtanen (Finnish Forest Research Institute, Rovaniemi). We also wish to thank Frits Steenhuisen (Arctic Center, Groningen) for his assistance in preparing Figure 3. The HadCM2 data has been supplied by the Climate Impacts LINK Project (DETR Contract EPG 1/1/68) on behalf of the Hadley Centre and U.K. Meteorological Office.
24. First submitted 28 May 2003. Revised manuscript received 18 Sept. 2003. Accepted for publication 29 Sept. 2003.