Climate Change and Its Effects on Permafrost
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Biosphere/Hydrosphere/Land–Atmosphere Interactions".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 December 2021) | Viewed by 7559
Special Issue Editor
Interests: permafrost; climatic change; paleogeography
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Dear Colleagues,
Climate usually fluctuates, and the changes affect the environment in many ways. Permafrost areas are unique in that they are usually characterized by a large build-up of ice in the ground. Any changes in temperature result in changes in soil volume, thickness of the active layer and underlying permafrost resulting from thawing or accumulation of ice, changes in vegetation, strength of the ground, etc. They also cause sequestering or release of carbon, heaving or subsidence, changes in strength of the ground, creep or flowage of surface materials and development of thermokarst features such as retrogressive thaw flows and landslides, alases, lakes, and ponds. This book will consist of a series of papers exploring and summarizing our present state of knowledge of these changes. This is sorely needed if the cold Arctic lands in the Northern Hemisphere are to be successfully developed.
Dr. Stuart A. Harris
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- climate change causes and mechanisms
- climate change effects on the permafrost environment
- climate change effects on human uses of permafrost lands
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