Modeling the role of preferential snow accumulation in through talik development and hillslope groundwater flow in a transitional permafrost landscape

• Published in: Environmental Research Letters
• Main Authors: Jafarov, Elchin E., Coon, Ethan T., Harp, Dylan R., Wilson, Cathy J., Painter, Scott L., Atchley, Adam L., Romanovsky, Vladimir E.
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Talik; permafrost; Seward Peninsula; Tundra
• Online Access: http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1474578; https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1474578; https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aadd30

Through taliks – thawed zones extending through the entire permafrost layer – represent a critical type of heterogeneity that affects water redistribution and heat transport, especially in sloping landscapes. The formation of through taliks as part of the transition from continuous to discontinuous...