Vector dataset of manually mapped retrogressive thaw slumps from very high-resolution multispectral imagery in the Russian High Arctic between 2011 and 2020

• Main Authors: Barth, Sophia, Nitze, Ingmar, Juhls, Bennet, Runge, Alexandra, Grosse, Guido
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2023
• Subjects: AWI_Perma; Climate change; DATE/TIME; Eastern Taymyr Peninsula; Event label; Geospatial vector; shapefiles; shapefiles (File Size); High Arctic; ice-rich Permafrost; landslide; LATITUDE; Location; LONGITUDE; mapping; Novaya Zemlya Archipelago; Permafrost; Permafrost coasts; Permafrost Research; permafrost thaw; Retrogressive Thaw Slumps; RTS_BL; RTS_ET; RTS_NK; RTS_NZ; RTS_SK; RTS_WT; Russia; Russian Arctic; Satellite imagery; SATI; Siberia; South Coast of Bol’shoy Lyakhovsky Island; thermokarst; West Coast of Kolguev Island; Western Taymyr Peninsula; Arctic; Taymyr; Ice; Kolguev; Novaya Zemlya; permafrost; Taymyr Peninsula; Thermokarst
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.961794; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.961794

We present a comprehensive inventory of retrogressive thaw slumps (RTS) for six study sites in the Russian High Arctic covering an area of more than 600 km². The sites are located on the Novaya Zemlya Archipelago, Kolguev Island, Bol'shoy Lyakhovsky Island, and Taymyr Peninsula in ice-rich perm...