Climate change reduces winter overland travel across the Pan-Arctic even under low-end global warming scenarios

• Published in: Environmental Research Letters
• Main Authors: Gädeke, Anne, Langer, Moritz, Boike, Julia, Burke, Eleanor J, Chang, Jinfeng, Head, Melissa, Reyer, Christopher P O, Schaphoff, Sibyll, Thiery, Wim, Thonicke, Kirsten
• Other Authors: Met Office Hadley Centre Climate Programme, Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, Horizon 2020 Framework Programme, Uniscientia Foundation
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: IOP Publishing 2021
• Subjects: Arctic; Magadan; Sakha; Arkhangelsk; Chukotka; Climate change; Global warming; Ice; khanty; nenets; permafrost; Yakutia; Alaska; Arkhangelsk Oblast; Siberia
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abdcf2; https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/abdcf2; https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/abdcf2/pdf

Abstract Amplified climate warming has led to permafrost degradation and a shortening of the winter season, both impacting cost-effective overland travel across the Arctic. Here we use, for the first time, four state-of-the-art Land Surface Models that explicitly consider ground freezing states, for...