Evidence for warming and thawing of discontinuous permafrost in Alaska

• Main Authors: T. E. Osterkamp, V. E. Romanovsky
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: La Table; Ice; permafrost; Thermokarst; Alaska; pergélisol
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1099-1530(199901/03)10:13.0.CO;2-4

Data show that permafrost temperatures along a north–south transect of Alaska from Old Man to Gulkana and at Healy generally warmed in the late 1980s to 1996. This trend was not followed at Eagle, about 330 km east of the transect. Estimates of the magnitude of the warming at the permafrost table ra...