Retreat of top cliff of Kurungnakh Island, Lena Delta, Siberia, Russia, 2010-2014, with links to shapefiles

• Main Authors: Stettner, Samuel, Bartsch, Annett, Widhalm, Barbara, Heim, Birgit, Günther, Frank, Morgenstern, Anne, Roth, Achim, Chetverova, Antonina, Fedorova, Irina V
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science 2015
• Subjects: DATE/TIME; Date/time end; File content; Uniform resource locator/link to file; Satellite remote sensing; RU-Land_2013_Lena; AWI Arctic Land Expedition; Arctic; Low Cliff; Ice; lena delta; permafrost; Siberia
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.846164; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.846164

Thawing-induced cliff top retreat in permafrost landscapes is mainly due to thermo-erosion. Ground-ice-rich permafrost landscapes are specifically vulnerable to thermo-erosion and may show high degradation rates. Within the HGF Alliance Remote Sensing and the FP7 PAGE21 permafrost programs we invest...