Simulating rapid permafrost degradation and erosion processes under a warming climate

• Main Authors: Langer, Moritz, Schneider von Deimling, Thomas, Kaiser, Soraya, Jacobi, Stephan, Westermann, Sebastian, Zwieback, Simon, Loibl, David, Overduin, Pier Paul, Boike, Julia
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Arctic; Canada; Rowland; permafrost; Alaska; Siberia
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/51218/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/51218/1/poster_mlanger_20180617.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.9e800855-7829-4133-a380-de5a2a8e4a5c; https://hdl.handle.net/

Current model approaches used to simulate the degradation of permafrost under a warming climate are highly simplistic since they only consider one-dimensional (top-down) thawing and ignore lateral processes such as soil erosion and mass wasting which are the most abundant forms of thaw in many regio...