Drivers of permafrost degradation along the Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk Highway

• Main Authors: Hammar, Jennika, Grünberg, Inge, Boike, Julia
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Canada; Inuvik; Northwest Territories; Trail Valley Creek; Tuktoyaktuk; Valley Creek; permafrost; Tundra
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/54919/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/54919/1/Hammar_Jennika_ITH.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.03fbb9da-4ea0-4318-85fe-711087cd3311; https://hdl.handle.net/

Infrastructure construction on permafrost is challenging. Not only are northern regions undergoing a faster and more intense global warming than the rest of the world, inducing thawing of the permafrost at a global scale. In addition, linear infrastructures such as gravel highways built on embankmen...