Assessing and projecting surface air temperature conditions required to sustain permafrost in Japan

Abstract Permafrost covers a wide area of the Northern Hemisphere, including high-altitude mountainous areas and even at mid-latitudes. There is concern that the thawing of mountain permafrost can cause slope instability and substantially impact alpine ecosystems, and because permafrost in mountaino...

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Main Authors: Tokuta Yokohata, Go Iwahana, Kazuyuki Saito, Noriko N. Ishizaki, Taiga Matsushita, Tetsuo Sueyoshi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2022-08-01
Series:Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-022-00498-z