Thermo-erosional landforms in Siberian ice-rich permafrost

• Main Authors: Morgenstern, Anne, Grosse, Guido, Arcos, David Rico, Günther, Frank, Overduin, Paul, Schirrmeister, Lutz
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Arctic; Laptev Sea; Khaya; Buor-Khaya; Climate change; Ice; laptev; lena river; permafrost; Thermokarst
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/33877/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.42385

Of major concern in periglacial research is the question of how arctic permafrost landscapes react to climate change. Warming and thawing of ice-rich permafrost may result in substantial hydrological, geomorphological, ecological, and biogeochemical feedbacks which may have local to global impacts....