Accelerated mobilization of organic carbon from retrogressive thaw slumps on the northern Taymyr Peninsula

Bernhard, Philipp; Zwieback, Simon; Hajnsek, Irena

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-2819-2022

Articles | Volume 16, issue 7

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-2819-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-2819-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 7

Research article

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15 Jul 2022

Research article |

| 15 Jul 2022

Accelerated mobilization of organic carbon from retrogressive thaw slumps on the northern Taymyr Peninsula

Philipp Bernhard, Simon Zwieback, and Irena Hajnsek

Data sets

Dataset for "Accelerated Mobilization of Organic Carbon from Retrogressive Thaw Slumps on the Northern Taymyr Peninsula" Philipp Bernhard https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000529493

Short summary

With climate change, Arctic hillslopes above ice-rich permafrost are vulnerable to enhanced carbon mobilization. In this work elevation change estimates generated from satellite observations reveal a substantial acceleration of carbon mobilization on the Taymyr Peninsula in Siberia between 2010 and 2021. The strong increase occurring in 2020 coincided with a severe Siberian heatwave and highlights that carbon mobilization can respond sharply and non-linearly to increasing temperatures.