Impact of Climate Change on the Ground Thermal Regime in the Lower Lena Region, Arctic Central Siberia

• Published in: Land
• Main Authors: Pavel Konstantinov, Nikolai Basharin, Alexander Fedorov, Yoshihiro Iijima, Varvara Andreeva, Valerii Semenov, Nikolai Vasiliev
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2022
• Subjects: climate change; permafrost; air temperature; ground temperature; active layer thickness; Agriculture; S; Arctic; Stone Ridge; Tiksi; Active layer thickness; Climate change; Tundra; Siberia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/land12010019; https://doaj.org/article/9ad5d60bdbdf47b4998097abada56fcf

This paper presents the results of 30 years of permafrost thermal monitoring in the Tiksi area in the eastern Russian Arctic. At a stone ridge site, the mean annual temperatures in the upper 30 m of the ground have increased by 1–2.4 °C compared to the first years of observations, with trends of °C/...