Modeling sub-sea permafrost in the East Siberian Arctic Shelf: The Laptev Sea region

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Nicolsky, D J ^a   Romanovsky, V E ^a,b   Romanovskii, N N ^c   Kholodov, A L ^a   Shakhova, N E ^a   Semiletov, I P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b EARTH CRYOSPHERE INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAND-SEA INTERACTION; MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMAFROST; THERMOKARST;

ARCTIC OCEAN; EAST SIBERIAN SEA; LAPTEV SEA;

EID: 84876550876     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JF002358     Document Type: Article

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