Thermokarst acceleration in Arctic tundra driven by climate change and fire disturbance, 1950-2015

• Main Authors: Yaping Chen, Mark Lara, Benjamin Jones, Gerald Frost, Feng sheng Hu
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2021
• Subjects: climate change; permafrost degradation; thermokarst; fire disturbance; repeat burn; Arctic; Tundra biome; Brooks Range; Climate change; permafrost; Seward Peninsula; Thermokarst; Tundra; Alaska
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.18739/A2610VT0G

Climate warming is projected to intensify tundra wildfire, with profound implications for permafrost thaw. A major uncertainty is how increased burning will interact with climate change to exacerbate thermokarst (ground-surface collapse resulting from permafrost thaw). Here we used ~70 years of remo...