Accelerated Mobilization of Organic Carbon from Retrogressive Thaw Slumps on the Northern Taymyr Peninsula

• Main Authors: Bernhard, Philipp, Zwieback, Simon, Hajnsek, Irena
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Arctic; Taymyr; Climate change; Ice; permafrost; Taymyr Peninsula; Siberia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2022-36; https://tc.copernicus.org/preprints/tc-2022-36/

With climate change, Arctic hillslopes above ice-rich permafrost are vulnerable to enhanced mass wasting and organic carbon mobilization. In this study we use TanDEM-X-derived digital elevation models to document an approximately 43-fold increase in thaw slumping and concomitant 28-fold increase in...