Collaborative Research: Climate Sensitivity of Thaw Lake Systems on the Alaska North Slope

There are thousands of thaw (thermokarst) lakes on the North Slope of Alaska, where they cover as much as 40% of the land area. Their very name recognizes the fact that they owe their origin to the impact they have on the ground thermal regime, but there have been few quantitative studies of the imp...

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Main Authors: Zhang, Tingjun, Jeffries, Martin O.
Language:unknown
Published: 2001
Subjects:
Meteorology and Climatology
Alaska North Slope
north slope
Thermokarst
Tundra
Alaska
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20010043992
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Summary:There are thousands of thaw (thermokarst) lakes on the North Slope of Alaska, where they cover as much as 40% of the land area. Their very name recognizes the fact that they owe their origin to the impact they have on the ground thermal regime, but there have been few quantitative studies of the impact of the lakes on atmosphere-land interactions in this tundra region.

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