Earth Observation-based Time Series Analysis of Retrogressive Thaw Slump Dynamics in the Russian High Arctic

• Main Author: Barth, Sophia
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: Universität Potsdam 2022
• Subjects: Arctic; Ice; Kolguev; Novaya Zemlya; permafrost; Taymyr; Taymyr Peninsula; Thermokarst
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/57279/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/57279/1/Masterthesis_SophiaBarth_29072022.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.ff2c0999-691d-47b8-9b92-317dad2a90bc

While temperatures are rising globally, they are rising more than twice as fast in the Arctic. Landscapes underlain by permafrost are especially vulnerable to this changing climate and experience increased thaw and degradation. The proceeding warming of organic-rich frozen ground is a highly relevan...