Hydrogeomorphic processes of thermokarst lakes with grounded‐ice and floating‐ice regimes on the Arctic coastal plain, Alaska

• Published in: Hydrological Processes
• Main Authors: Arp, Christopher D., Jones, Benjamin M., Urban, Frank E., Grosse, Guido
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2011
• Subjects: Arctic; Ice Lakes; Ice; permafrost; Thermokarst; Alaska
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hyp.8019; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fhyp.8019; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/hyp.8019

Abstract Thermokarst lakes cover > 20% of the landscape throughout much of the Alaskan Arctic Coastal Plain (ACP) with shallow lakes freezing solid (grounded ice) and deeper lakes maintaining perennial liquid water (floating ice). Thus, lake depth relative to maximum ice thickness (1·5–2·0 m) rep...