Modern thermokarst lake dynamics in the continuous permafrost zone, northern Seward Peninsula, Alaska

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Jones, B M ^a,b   Grosse, G ^a   Arp, C D ^c   Jones, M C ^c   Walter Anthony, K M ^c   Romanovsky, V E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c University of Alaska Fairbanks   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON BUDGET; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; INFILTRATION; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; PEAT; PERMAFROST; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; THERMOKARST;

ALASKA; ARCTIC; SEWARD PENINSULA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80053088620     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JG001666     Document Type: Article

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