Thermal regime variability of islands in the Lena River near Yakutsk, eastern Siberia

• Published in: Permafrost and Periglacial Processes
• Main Authors: Costard, François, Gautier, Emmanuèle, Konstantinov, Pavel, Bouchard, Frederic, Séjourné, Antoine, Dupeyrat, Laure, Fedorov, Alexander
• Other Authors: Géosciences Paris Saclay (GEOPS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de géographie physique : Environnements Quaternaires et Actuels (LGP), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 (UPEC UP12)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Melnikov Permafrost Institute, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SB RAS)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2022
• Subjects: [SDU.STU.GM]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Geomorphology; Arctic; Yakutsk; Four Islands; Ice; lena river; permafrost; Permafrost and Periglacial Processes; Siberia
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-03821050; https://hal.science/hal-03821050/document; https://hal.science/hal-03821050/file/Costard%20et%20al_Lena-Islands_v7.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp.2136

International audience Recent evidence has shown that Arctic regions have warmed about twice as much as elsewhere on the planet over the last few decades, and that high-latitude permafrost–periglacial processes and hydrological systems are notably responsive to rising temperatures. The aim of this p...