Degrading permafrost puts Arctic infrastructure at risk by mid-century
Degradation of near-surface permafrost can pose a serious threat to the utilization of natural resources, and to the sustainable development of Arctic communities. Here we identify at unprecedentedly high spatial resolution infrastructure hazard areas in the Northern Hemisphere's permafrost reg...
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ftunivhelsihelda:oai:helda.helsinki.fi:10138/275481 2024-01-07T09:40:40+01:00 Degrading permafrost puts Arctic infrastructure at risk by mid-century Hjort, Jan Karjalainen, Olli Aalto, Juha Antero Westermann, Sebastian Romanovsky, Vladimir Nelson, Frederick Etzelmüller, Bernd Luoto, Miska BioGeoClimate Modelling Lab Department of Geosciences and Geography Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS) 2018-12-14T08:08:01Z 9 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10138/275481 eng eng Nature Publishing Group 10.1038/s41467-018-07557-4 Hjort , J , Karjalainen , O , Aalto , J A , Westermann , S , Romanovsky , V , Nelson , F , Etzelmüller , B & Luoto , M 2018 , ' Degrading permafrost puts Arctic infrastructure at risk by mid-century ' , Nature Communications , vol. 9 , 5147 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07557-4 ORCID: /0000-0001-6203-5143/work/51800356 ORCID: /0000-0001-6819-4911/work/51806062 85058460618 5bae0fab-c5dd-4c20-a9d9-b6a6a3ba8eae http://hdl.handle.net/10138/275481 000452777200001 cc_by openAccess info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess 1172 Environmental sciences CLIMATE-CHANGE CHANGING CLIMATE THERMAL REGIME THAW OIL MAP DEGRADATION LANDSCAPES HAZARD Article publishedVersion 2018 ftunivhelsihelda 2023-12-14T00:07:17Z Degradation of near-surface permafrost can pose a serious threat to the utilization of natural resources, and to the sustainable development of Arctic communities. Here we identify at unprecedentedly high spatial resolution infrastructure hazard areas in the Northern Hemisphere's permafrost regions under projected climatic changes and quantify fundamental engineering structures at risk by 2050. We show that nearly four million people and 70% of current infrastructure in the permafrost domain are in areas with high potential for thaw of near-surface permafrost. Our results demonstrate that one-third of pan-Arctic infrastructure and 45% of the hydrocarbon extraction fields in the Russian Arctic are in regions where thaw-related ground instability can cause severe damage to the built environment. Alarmingly, these figures are not reduced substantially even if the climate change targets of the Paris Agreement are reached. Peer reviewed Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Climate change permafrost HELDA – University of Helsinki Open Repository Arctic Nature Communications 9 1 |
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Degradation of near-surface permafrost can pose a serious threat to the utilization of natural resources, and to the sustainable development of Arctic communities. Here we identify at unprecedentedly high spatial resolution infrastructure hazard areas in the Northern Hemisphere's permafrost regions under projected climatic changes and quantify fundamental engineering structures at risk by 2050. We show that nearly four million people and 70% of current infrastructure in the permafrost domain are in areas with high potential for thaw of near-surface permafrost. Our results demonstrate that one-third of pan-Arctic infrastructure and 45% of the hydrocarbon extraction fields in the Russian Arctic are in regions where thaw-related ground instability can cause severe damage to the built environment. Alarmingly, these figures are not reduced substantially even if the climate change targets of the Paris Agreement are reached. Peer reviewed |
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Degrading permafrost puts Arctic infrastructure at risk by mid-century |
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Degrading permafrost puts Arctic infrastructure at risk by mid-century |
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Degrading permafrost puts Arctic infrastructure at risk by mid-century |
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10.1038/s41467-018-07557-4 Hjort , J , Karjalainen , O , Aalto , J A , Westermann , S , Romanovsky , V , Nelson , F , Etzelmüller , B & Luoto , M 2018 , ' Degrading permafrost puts Arctic infrastructure at risk by mid-century ' , Nature Communications , vol. 9 , 5147 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07557-4 ORCID: /0000-0001-6203-5143/work/51800356 ORCID: /0000-0001-6819-4911/work/51806062 85058460618 5bae0fab-c5dd-4c20-a9d9-b6a6a3ba8eae http://hdl.handle.net/10138/275481 000452777200001 |
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