Complexity revealed in the greening of the Arctic

IH Myers-Smith, JT Kerby, GK Phoenix… - Nature Climate …, 2020 - nature.com
As the Arctic warms, vegetation is responding, and satellite measures indicate widespread
greening at high latitudes. This 'greening of the Arctic'is among the world's most important …

The status and stability of permafrost carbon on the Tibetan Plateau

C Mu, BW Abbott, AJ Norris, M Mu, C Fan, X Chen… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Permafrost regions at high latitudes and altitudes store about half of the Earth's soil organic
carbon (SOC). These areas are also some of the most intensely affected by anthropogenic …

Changing state of the climate system

SK Gulev, PW Thorne, J Ahn, FJ Dentener… - 2021 - centaur.reading.ac.uk
2 Chapter 2 assesses observed large-scale changes in climate system drivers, key climate
indicators and 3 principal modes of variability. Chapter 3 considers model performance and …

Polar regions

MP Meredith, M Sommerkorn… - The ocean and …, 2019 - research.monash.edu
This chapter assesses the state of physical, biological and social knowledge concerning the
Arctic and Antarctic ocean and cryosphere, how they are affected by climate change, and …

Lake and drained lake basin systems in lowland permafrost regions

BM Jones, G Grosse, LM Farquharson… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
The formation, growth and drainage of lakes in Arctic and boreal lowland permafrost regions
influence landscape and ecosystem processes. These lake and drained lake basin (L-DLB) …

Circum-Arctic map of the Yedoma permafrost domain

J Strauss, S Laboor, L Schirrmeister… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Ice-rich permafrost in the circum-Arctic and sub-Arctic (hereafter pan-Arctic), such as late
Pleistocene Yedoma, are especially prone to degradation due to climate change or human …

[HTML][HTML] Recent trends and remaining challenges for optical remote sensing of Arctic tundra vegetation: A review and outlook

A Beamish, MK Raynolds, H Epstein, GV Frost… - Remote Sensing of …, 2020 - Elsevier
A systematic review and inventory of recent research relating to optical remote sensing of
Arctic vegetation was conducted, and thematic and geographical trends were summarized …

Remote sensing quantifies widespread abundance of permafrost region disturbances across the Arctic and Subarctic

I Nitze, G Grosse, BM Jones, VE Romanovsky… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Local observations indicate that climate change and shifting disturbance regimes are
causing permafrost degradation. However, the occurrence and distribution of permafrost …

Arctic‐Boreal lake dynamics revealed using CubeSat imagery

SW Cooley, LC Smith, JC Ryan… - Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Fine‐scale, subseasonal fluctuations in Arctic‐Boreal surface water reflect regional water
balance and modulate trace gas emissions to the atmosphere but have eluded detection …

Using deep learning to map retrogressive thaw slumps in the Beiluhe region (Tibetan Plateau) from CubeSat images

L Huang, J Luo, Z Lin, F Niu, L Liu - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Retrogressive thaw slumps (RTSs) are among the most dynamic landforms in permafrost
areas, and their formation can be attributed to the thawing of ice-rich permafrost. The spatial …