Nature Communications (Jan 2019)

Permafrost is warming at a global scale

  • Boris K. Biskaborn,
  • Sharon L. Smith,
  • Jeannette Noetzli,
  • Heidrun Matthes,
  • Gonçalo Vieira,
  • Dmitry A. Streletskiy,
  • Philippe Schoeneich,
  • Vladimir E. Romanovsky,
  • Antoni G. Lewkowicz,
  • Andrey Abramov,
  • Michel Allard,
  • Julia Boike,
  • William L. Cable,
  • Hanne H. Christiansen,
  • Reynald Delaloye,
  • Bernhard Diekmann,
  • Dmitry Drozdov,
  • Bernd Etzelmüller,
  • Guido Grosse,
  • Mauro Guglielmin,
  • Thomas Ingeman-Nielsen,
  • Ketil Isaksen,
  • Mamoru Ishikawa,
  • Margareta Johansson,
  • Halldor Johannsson,
  • Anseok Joo,
  • Dmitry Kaverin,
  • Alexander Kholodov,
  • Pavel Konstantinov,
  • Tim Kröger,
  • Christophe Lambiel,
  • Jean-Pierre Lanckman,
  • Dongliang Luo,
  • Galina Malkova,
  • Ian Meiklejohn,
  • Natalia Moskalenko,
  • Marc Oliva,
  • Marcia Phillips,
  • Miguel Ramos,
  • A. Britta K. Sannel,
  • Dmitrii Sergeev,
  • Cathy Seybold,
  • Pavel Skryabin,
  • Alexander Vasiliev,
  • Qingbai Wu,
  • Kenji Yoshikawa,
  • Mikhail Zheleznyak,
  • Hugues Lantuit

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08240-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Climate change strongly impacts regions in high latitudes and altitudes that store high amounts of carbon in yet frozen ground. Here the authors show that the consequence of these changes is global warming of permafrost at depths greater than 10 m in the Northern Hemisphere, in mountains, and in Antarctica.