New permafrost is forming around shrinking Arctic lakes, but will it last?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1585-1592

  Briggs, Martin A ^a   Walvoord, Michelle A ^a   McKenzie, Jeffrey M ^b   Voss, Clifford I ^c   Day Lewis, Frederick D ^a   Lane, John W ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic; climate change; cold regions; ecological succession; groundwater modeling; permafrost

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; ECOLOGY; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HEAT TRANSFER; LAKES; SHRINKAGE; THAWING;

ARCTIC; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; COLD-REGIONS; ECOLOGICAL SUCCESSIONS; GROUNDWATER MODELING; PERMAFROST THAWS; SOIL CONDITIONS; VARIABLY SATURATED;

PERMAFROST;

AGGRADATION; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE EFFECT; FREEZE-THAW CYCLE; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HEAT TRANSFER; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; PERMAFROST; SHRINKAGE; SIMULATION;

ALASKA; TWELVEMILE LAKE; UNITED STATES;

SALIX;

EID: 84895602983     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL059251     Document Type: Article

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