Climate Change and Hazard Zonation in the Circum-Arctic Permafrost Regions

The permafrost regions currently occupy about one quarter of the Earth's land area.Climate-change scenarios indicate that global warming will be amplified in the polarregions, and could lead to a large reduction in the geographic extent of permafrost.Development of natural resources, transporta...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Natural hazards (Dordrecht) 2002-07, Vol.26 (3), p.203-203
Hauptverfasser:	Nelson, F E, Anisimov, O A, Shiklomanov, NI
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Climate change General circulation models Global climate Global warming Ice Infrastructure Latitude Natural resources Permafrost Resource development Zonation
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