Permafrost and Ground Ice Conditions in the Ogilvie Mountains, Central Yukon

• Main Author: Frappier, Roxanne
• Other Authors: Lacelle, Denis
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 2023
• Subjects: Permafrost; Climate change; Geomorphology; Ground ice; Remote sensing; Modeling; Arctic; Ogilvie; Ogilvie Mountains; Tombstone; Yukon; Ice; permafrost; wedge*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10393/45076; https://doi.org/10.20381/ruor-29282

Permafrost is vulnerable to climate changes and the associated landscape changes that are enhanced by amplification processes and feedbacks unique to the Arctic. Permafrost degradation leads to important changes in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, and determining regions that are sensitive to per...