Fifty-year dynamics of the Lena River islands (Russia): Spatio-temporal pattern of large periglacial anabranching river and influence of climate change

• Published in: Science of The Total Environment
• Main Authors: Gautier, Emmanuèle, Dépret, Thomas, Cavero, Julien, Costard, François, Virmoux, Clément, Fedorov, Alexander, Konstantinov, Pavel, Jammet, Maël, Brunstein, Daniel
• Other Authors: Laboratoire de géographie physique : Environnements Quaternaires et Actuels (LGP), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 (UPEC UP12)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Géosciences Paris Saclay (GEOPS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Melnikov Permafrost Institute, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SB RAS), Lieux, Identités, eSpaces, Activités (LISA), Université Pascal Paoli (UPP)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2021
• Subjects: fluvial islands; periglacial river; spatial analysis; anabranching fluvial forms; climate change; Lena River; [SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes; [SHS.GEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Geography; Long Reach Island; River Islands; lena river; permafrost
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03353117; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03353117/document; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03353117/file/Lena_Version_Pub.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147020

International audience The Lena, a large river that drains the northern coldest region of the Northern Hemisphere, is deeply influenced by the continuous permafrost and degradation of the frozen ground has been shown to be the main cause of the marked increase in water discharge. The first objective...