Presence of rapidly degrading permafrost plateaus in south-central Alaska

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Jones, Benjamin M., Baughman, Carson A., Romanovsky, Vladimir E., Parsekian, Andrew D., Babcock, Esther L., Stephani, Eva, Jones, Miriam C., Grosse, Guido, Berg, Edward E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Copernicus 2016
• Subjects: permafrost; The Cryosphere; Alaska
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/42241/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/42241/1/tc-10-2673-2016.pdf; https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-2673-2016; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.48964; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.48964.d001

Permafrost presence is determined by a complex interaction of climatic, topographic, and ecological conditions operating over long time scales. In particular, vegetation and organic layer characteristics may act to protect permafrost in regions with a mean annual air temperature (MAAT) above 0°C. In...