Geoelectric observations of the degradation of nearshore submarine permafrost at Barrow (Alaskan Beaufort Sea)

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Overduin, Pier Paul ^a   Westermann, Sebastian ^a,b   Yoshikawa, Kenji ^c   Haberlau, Thomas ^d   Romanovsky, Vladimir ^e   Wetterich, Sebastian ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c University of Alaska Fairbanks   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL EROSION; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; HEAT FLUX; ICE RETREAT; NEARSHORE DYNAMICS; PERMAFROST; SALINITY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SHELF SEDIMENT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; UNDERWATER ENVIRONMENT;

ALASKA; ARCTIC OCEAN; BARROW; BEAUFORT SEA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84859710648     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JF002088     Document Type: Article

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