Climate-Induced Extreme Hydrologic Events in the Arctic

• Published in: Remote Sensing
• Main Authors: Toru Sakai, Tsuneo Matsunaga, Shamil Maksyutov, Semen Gotovtsev, Leonid Gagarin, Tetsuya Hiyama, Yasushi Yamaguchi
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2016
• Subjects: flood; global warming; precipitation; permafrost; thermal erosion; thermokarst lake; Alazeya; Arctic; Kolyma; Climate change; Global warming; Thermokarst
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs8110971

The objectives were (i) to evaluate the relationship between recent climate change and extreme hydrological events and (ii) to characterize the behavior of hydrological events along the Alazeya River. The warming rate of air temperature observed at the meteorological station in Chersky was 0.0472 °C...