Heatwaves thawing Arctic permafrost
Satellite data affords D-BAUG researchers a new method for quantifying carbon mobilisation in Arctic permafrost. Their findings also reveal how summer heatwaves accelerate the rate of Arctic landslides in thawing permafrost. The study was developed by researchers around Irena Hajnsek, Professor Earth Observation and Remote Sensing at the Institute of Environmental Engineering (IfU).
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Original publication:
- Philipp Bernhard, Simon Zwieback, and Irena Hajnsek
DownloadAccelerated mobilization of organic carbon from retrogressive thaw slumps on the northernTaymyr Peninsulavertical_align_bottom
The Cryosphere (2022), doi: 10.5194/tc-16-2819-2022 - Philipp Bernhard, Simon Zwieback, Silvan Leinss and Irena Hajnsek
DownloadMapping Retrogressive Thaw Slumps Using Single-Pass TanDEM-X Observationsvertical_align_bottom
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (2020), doi: 10.1109/JSTARS.2020.3000648.
More information:
- More on arctic research at D-BAUG
- Earth Observation and Remote Sensing group led by Irena Hajnsek