High Arctic channel incision modulated by climate change and the emergence of polygonal ground

• Published in: Nature Communications
• Main Authors: Chartrand, Shawn M., Jellinek, A. Mark, Kukko, Antero, Galofre, Anna Grau, Osinski, Gordon R., Hibbard, Shannon
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group UK 2023
• Subjects: Article; Arctic; Axel Heiberg Island; Heiberg; Climate change; Global warming; muskox; permafrost
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10497538/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37699903; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-40795-9

Stream networks in Arctic and high-elevation regions underlain by frozen ground (i.e., permafrost) are expanding and developing in response to accelerating global warming, and intensifying summertime climate variability. The underlying processes governing landscape dissection in these environments a...