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, Thonicke, Kirsten
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Bristol : IOP Publ. 2021
• Subjects: Arctic accessibility; Arctic transport; Climate change; Ice roads; Land surface models; Permafrost; Winter roads; 690; Arctic; Sakha; Magadan; Arkhangelsk; Chukotka; Global warming; Ice; khanty; nenets; permafrost; Yakutia; Alaska; Arkhangelsk Oblast; Siberia
• Online Access: https://oa.tib.eu/renate/handle/123456789/10472; https://doi.org/10.34657/9508

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...