Climate change reduces winter overland travel across the Pan-Arctic even under low-end global warming scenarios

• Main Authors: Gädeke, Anne, Langer, Moritz, Boike, Julia, Burke, Eleanor J., Chang, Jinfeng, Head, Melissa, Reyer, Christopher P.O., Schaphoff, Sibyll, Thiery, Wim, id_orcid:0 000-0002-5183-6145, Thonicke, Kirsten
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: IOP Publishing 2021
• Subjects: permafrost; climate change; land surface models; Arctic transport; winter roads; ice roads; Arctic accessibility; Arctic; Magadan; Sakha; Arkhangelsk; Chukotka; Climate change; Global warming; Ice; khanty; nenets; Yakutia; Alaska; Arkhangelsk Oblast; Siberia
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/471295; https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000471295

Amplified climate warming has led to permafrost degradation and a shortening of the winter season, both impacting cost-effective overland travel across the Arctic. Here we use, for the first time, four state-of-the-art Land Surface Models that explicitly consider ground freezing states, forced by a...