Monitoring Bedfast Ice and Ice Phenology in Lakes of the Lena River Delta Using TerraSAR-X Backscatter and Coherence Time Series

• Published in: Remote Sensing
• Main Authors: Antonova, Sofia, Duguay, Claude, Kääb, Andreas, Heim, Birgit, Langer, Moritz, Westermann, Sebastian, Boike, Julia
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Lake; Ice; lena river; permafrost; Thermokarst; Siberia
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/42243/; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs8110903; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.48963

Thermokarst lakes and ponds are major elements of permafrost landscapes, occupying up to 40% of the land area in some Arctic regions. Shallow lakes freeze to the bed, thus preventing permafrost thaw underneath them and limiting the length of the period with greenhouse gas production in the unfrozen...