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

• Published in: Frontiers in Earth Science
• Main Authors: Juhls, Bennet, Antonova, Sofia, Angelopoulos, Michael, Bobrov, Nikita, Grigoriev, Mikhail, Langer, Moritz, Maksimov, Georgii, Miesner, Frederieke, Overduin, Pier
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 2021
• Subjects: river ice; lena river delta; remote sensing; geophysics; permafrost; hydrology; navigation; cryosphere; 550 Geowissenschaften; ddc:550; Arctic; Snow River; Climate change; Ice; lena river
• Online Access: http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/18452/24010; https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/24010-7; https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2021.689941; https://doi.org/10.18452/23359

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...