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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-363-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-363-2024
Research article
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26 Jan 2024
Research article |  | 26 Jan 2024

The evolution of Arctic permafrost over the last 3 centuries from ensemble simulations with the CryoGridLite permafrost model

Moritz Langer, Jan Nitzbon, Brian Groenke, Lisa-Marie Assmann, Thomas Schneider von Deimling, Simone Maria Stuenzi, and Sebastian Westermann

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Using a model that can simulate the evolution of Arctic permafrost over centuries to millennia, we find that post-industrialization permafrost warming has three "hotspots" in NE Canada, N Alaska, and W Siberia. The extent of near-surface permafrost has decreased substantially since 1850, with the largest area losses occurring in the last 50 years. The simulations also show that volcanic eruptions have in some cases counteracted the loss of near-surface permafrost for a few decades.
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