Isotropic thaw subsidence in undisturbed permafrost landscapes

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 24, 2013, Pages 6356-6361

  Shiklomanov, Nikolay I ^a   Streletskiy, Dmitry A ^a   Little, Jonathon D ^b   Nelson, Frederick E ^c  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MONROE COMMUNITY COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

active layer; Alaska; climate change; permafrost; thaw subsidence

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; ALASKA; DIFFERENTIAL GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEMS; ICE-RICH PERMAFROST; NEAR SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE; OBSERVATION TECHNIQUES; PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS; VERTICAL MOVEMENT;

CLIMATE CHANGE; SUBSIDENCE; THAWING;

PERMAFROST;

ACTIVE LAYER; AIR TEMPERATURE; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; GPS; ICE MOVEMENT; ICE THICKNESS; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; PERMAFROST; SUBSIDENCE; SURFACE AREA; TERRAIN; THAWING; VERTICAL MOVEMENT;

ALASKA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84890398748     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL058295     Document Type: Article

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