Remote Sensing of Rapid Permafrost Landscape Dynamics

• Main Author: Nitze, Ingmar
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Arctic; Kolyma; Alaska North Slope; albedo; Ice; lena delta; north slope; permafrost; Subarctic; Thermokarst; Tundra; Alaska; Siberia
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/48543/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/48543/1/01_IN_DISS_main_final.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.06b53ac8-fc44-4030-be3f-45a06670201d; https://hdl.handle.net/

The global climate is warming and the northern high latitudes are affected particularly rapidly. Large areas of this region, or 24% of the northern hemisphere, are influenced by perennially frozen ground or permafrost. As permafrost is predominantly dependent on cold mean annual air temperatures, cl...