Permafrost, infrastructure, and climate change: A gis-based landscape approach to geotechnical modeling

Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 368-380

  Streletskiy, Dmitry ^a   Shiklomanov, Nikolay ^a   Nelson, Frederick ^b  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CONSTRUCTION; GEOTECHNICAL PROPERTY; GIS; GLOBAL WARMING; INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT; LANDSCAPE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMAFROST; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ARCTIC; SIBERIA;

EID: 84870699589     PISSN: 15230430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1657/1938-4246-44.3.368     Document Type: Article

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