Articles | Volume 15, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-2451-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-2451-2021
Research article
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31 May 2021
Research article |  | 31 May 2021

Consequences of permafrost degradation for Arctic infrastructure – bridging the model gap between regional and engineering scales

Thomas Schneider von Deimling, Hanna Lee, Thomas Ingeman-Nielsen, Sebastian Westermann, Vladimir Romanovsky, Scott Lamoureux, Donald A. Walker, Sarah Chadburn, Erin Trochim, Lei Cai, Jan Nitzbon, Stephan Jacobi, and Moritz Langer

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Short summary
Climate warming puts infrastructure built on permafrost at risk of failure. There is a growing need for appropriate model-based risk assessments. Here we present a modelling study and show an exemplary case of how a gravel road in a cold permafrost environment in Alaska might suffer from degrading permafrost under a scenario of intense climate warming. We use this case study to discuss the broader-scale applicability of our model for simulating future Arctic infrastructure failure.