Extreme weather and climate events in northern areas: A review

JE Walsh, TJ Ballinger, ES Euskirchen, E Hanna… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
The greatest impacts of climate change on ecosystems, wildlife and humans often arise from
extreme events rather than changes in climatic means. Northern high latitudes, including the …

Sub-aerial talik formation observed across the discontinuous permafrost zone of Alaska

LM Farquharson, VE Romanovsky, A Kholodov… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Talik formation has long been acknowledged as an important mechanism of permafrost
degradation. Currently, a lack of in situ observations has left a critical gap in our …

Consequences of permafrost degradation for Arctic infrastructure–bridging the model gap between regional and engineering scales

T Schneider von Deimling, H Lee… - The Cryosphere …, 2020 - tc.copernicus.org
Infrastructure built on perennially frozen ice-rich ground relies heavily on thermally stable
subsurface conditions. Climate warming-induced deepening of ground thaw puts such …

[HTML][HTML] Recent degradation of interior Alaska permafrost mapped with ground surveys, geophysics, deep drilling, and repeat airborne lidar

TA Douglas, CA Hiemstra, JE Anderson… - The …, 2021 - tc.copernicus.org
Permafrost underlies one-quarter of the Northern Hemisphere but is at increasing risk of
thaw from climate warming. Recent studies across the Arctic have identified areas of rapid …

Watershed‐scale climate influences productivity of Chinook salmon populations across southcentral Alaska

LA Jones, ER Schoen, R Shaftel… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The ecosystems supporting Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) are changing rapidly as a
result of climate change and habitat alteration. Understanding how—and how consistently …

Alaska terrestrial and marine climate trends, 1957–2021

TJ Ballinger, US Bhatt, PA Bieniek… - Journal of …, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
Some of the largest climatic changes in the Arctic have been observed in Alaska and the
surrounding marginal seas. Near-surface air temperature (T2m), precipitation (P), snowfall …

[HTML][HTML] Climate extremes across the North American Arctic in modern reanalyses

A Avila-Diaz, DH Bromwich, AB Wilson… - Journal of …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
Atmospheric reanalyses are a valuable climate-related resource where in situ data are
sparse. However, few studies have investigated the skill of reanalyses to represent extreme …

[HTML][HTML] Twenty-first century climate extremes' projections and their spatio-temporal trend analysis over Pakistan

F Khan, S Ali, H Ullah, S Muhammad - Journal of Hydrology: Regional …, 2023 - Elsevier
Study region The study area comprising Pakistan is distributed in five homogeneous climatic
zones. Study focus An integrated five step approach has been used for zonal climate …

Arctic vegetation mapping using unsupervised training datasets and convolutional neural networks

ZL Langford, J Kumar, FM Hoffman, AL Breen… - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
Land cover datasets are essential for modeling and analysis of Arctic ecosystem structure
and function and for understanding land–atmosphere interactions at high spatial resolutions …

Downscaling of climate model output for Alaskan stakeholders

JE Walsh, US Bhatt, JS Littell, M Leonawicz… - … modelling & software, 2018 - Elsevier
The paper summarizes an end-to-end activity connecting the global climate modeling
enterprise with users of climate information in Alaska. The effort included retrieval of the …