High Arctic channel incision modulated by climate change and the emergence of polygonal ground

• Published in: Nature Communications
• Main Authors: Shawn M. Chartrand, A. Mark Jellinek, Antero Kukko, Anna Grau Galofre, Gordon R. Osinski, Shannon Hibbard
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Portfolio 2023
• Subjects: Science; Q; Arctic; Axel Heiberg Island; Heiberg; Climate change; Global warming; muskox; permafrost
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-40795-9; https://doaj.org/article/cb334d0909f347ba963d16ed2d02bf9f

Abstract Stream networks in Arctic and high-elevation regions underlain by frozen ground (i.e., permafrost) are expanding and developing in response to accelerating global warming, and intensifying summertime climate variability. The underlying processes governing landscape dissection in these envir...