Serpentine (Floating) Ice Channels and their Interaction with Riverbed Permafrost in the Lena River Delta, Russia

• Published in: Frontiers in Earth Science
• Main Authors: Bennet Juhls, Sofia Antonova, Michael Angelopoulos, Nikita Bobrov, Mikhail Grigoriev, Moritz Langer, Georgii Maksimov, Frederieke Miesner, Pier Paul Overduin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
• Subjects: river ice; lena river delta; remote sensing; geophysics; permafrost; hydrology; Science; Q; Arctic; Snow River; Climate change; Ice; lena river
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2021.689941; https://doaj.org/article/dd626472126c4642aa214086be31c56b

Arctic deltas and their river channels are characterized by three components of the cryosphere: snow, river ice, and permafrost, making them especially sensitive to ongoing climate change. Thinning river ice and rising river water temperatures may affect the thermal state of permafrost beneath the r...