The Role of Interannual Climate Variability in Controlling Solifluction Processes, Endalen, Svalbard

Permafrost and Periglacial Processes

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 239-253

  Harris, Charles ^a   Kern Luetschg, Martina ^a   Christiansen, Hanne H ^b   Smith, Fraser ^c  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active layer; Frost heave; Pore pressures; Solifluction; Temperatures

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; CLIMATE VARIATION; DISPLACEMENT; FROST HEAVE; FROZEN GROUND; PORE PRESSURE; SHEAR STRAIN; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SOLIFLUCTION;

ARCTIC; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 80052031262     PISSN: 10456740     EISSN: 10991530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ppp.727     Document Type: Article

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