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Articles | Volume 13, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-1089-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-1089-2019
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04 Apr 2019
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Pathways of ice-wedge degradation in polygonal tundra under different hydrological conditions

Jan Nitzbon, Moritz Langer, Sebastian Westermann, Léo Martin, Kjetil Schanke Aas, and Julia Boike

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Aas, K. S., Gisnås, K., Westermann, S., and Berntsen, T. K.: A Tiling Approach to Represent Subgrid Snow Variability in Coupled Land Surface–Atmosphere Models, J. Hydrometeorol., 18, 49–63, https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-16-0026.1, 2017. a
Aas, K. S., Martin, L., Nitzbon, J., Langer, M., Boike, J., Lee, H., Berntsen, T. K., and Westermann, S.: Thaw processes in ice-rich permafrost landscapes represented with laterally coupled tiles in a land surface model, The Cryosphere, 13, 591–609, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-591-2019, 2019. a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h
Abolt, C. J., Young, M. H., and Caldwell, T. G.: Numerical Modelling of Ice-Wedge Polygon Geomorphic Transition, Permafrost Periglac., 28, 347–355, https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp.1909, 2017. a, b
Abolt, C. J., Young, M. H., Atchley, A. L., and Harp, D. R.: Microtopographic control on the ground thermal regime in ice wedge polygons, The Cryosphere, 12, 1957–1968, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-1957-2018, 2018. a, b, c
AMAP: Snow, Water, Ice and Permafrost in the Arctic (SWIPA) – 2017, Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme, Oslo, Norway, oCLC: 1038467657, 2017. a
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We studied the stability of ice wedges (massive bodies of ground ice in permafrost) under recent...