Ice wedge polygon development on different temporal and spatial scales in the northern Yukon, Canada

• Main Authors: Fritz, Michael, Wolter, Juliane, Rudaya, Natalia, Palagushkina, Olga, Nazarova, Larisa, Krautblatter, Michael, Obu, Jaroslav
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: Terra Nostra – Schriften der GeoUnion Alfred-Wegener-Stiftung 2015/1 2015
• Subjects: Ice; permafrost; Talik; Tundra; wedge*; Yukon
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/37965/; http://www.awi.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Research/Research_Divisions/Geosciences/Periglacial_Research/Events/PastGateways2015/PastGateways-Abstractband-Screen-Final3.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.45525

Ice wedge polygons (IWP) are amongst the most typical permafrost phenomena in Arctic lowlands. Within the northern hemisphere, IWP are thought to occupy between 250,000 km² (Minke et al., 2007) and 2,600,000 km² (Mackay 1972) of the tundra and boreal forest, which accounts for 3 to 31% of the arctic...