Articles | Volume 10, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-2241-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-2241-2016
Research article
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27 Sep 2016
Research article |  | 27 Sep 2016

Modeling the spatiotemporal variability in subsurface thermal regimes across a low-relief polygonal tundra landscape

Jitendra Kumar, Nathan Collier, Gautam Bisht, Richard T. Mills, Peter E. Thornton, Colleen M. Iversen, and Vladimir Romanovsky

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Modeling the spatio-temporal variability in subsurface thermal regimes across a low-relief polygonal tundra landscape: Modeling Archive Jitendra Kumar, Nathan Collier, Gautam Bisht, Richard T. Mills, Peter E. Thornton, Colleen M. Iversen, and Vladimir Romanovsky https://doi.org/10.5440/1184018

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Microtopography of the low-gradient polygonal tundra plays a critical role in these ecosystem; however, patterns and drivers are poorly understood. A modeling-based approach was developed in this study to characterize and represent the permafrost soils in the model and simulate the thermal dynamics using a mechanistic high-resolution model. Results shows the ability of the model to simulate the patterns and variability of thermal regimes and improve our understanding of polygonal tundra.