Observing Muostakh disappear: Permafrost thaw subsidence and erosion of a ground-ice-rich Island in response to arctic summer warming and sea ice reduction

Cryosphere

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 151-178

  Gunther F ^a   Overduin, P P ^a   Yakshina, I A ^b   Opel, T ^a   Baranskaya, A V ^c   Grigoriev, M N ^d  

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

^b Ust Lensky State Nature Reserve ^*  (Russian Federation)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d MELNIKOV PERMAFROST INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABRASION; ACCELERATION; AIR TEMPERATURE; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GLOBAL WARMING; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PERMAFROST; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA ICE; SEASONALITY; THAWING;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; LAPTEV SEA;

EID: 84921827312     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-9-151-2015     Document Type: Article

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