Shear Characteristics and Strength Criterion of Frozen Joints under Different Opening Degrees by Shiwei Shen, Lin Gan, Chang Liu, Shulin Dai

“…These results can lay a theoretical foundation for the stability analysis of rock mass engineering in permafrost areas.…”
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Future Arctic: how will increasing coastal erosion shape nearshore planktonic food webs? by Gabriel A. Juma, Cédric L. Meunier, Emily M. Herstoff, Anna M. Irrgang, Michael Fritz, Caroline Weber, Hugues Lantuit, Inga V. Kirstein, Maarten Boersma

“…Currently, warming accelerates the erosion of permafrost coasts and the associated discharge of sediment, carbon, and nutrients into the Arctic Ocean. …”
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The most comprehensive history of fire activity in the Pur-Taz interfluve over the last 11,000 years (Western Siberia, Russia) by Nikita V. Shefer, Sergey V. Loiko, Ivan V. Kriсkov, Artem G. Lim

“…It was also established that in the second half of the Holocene in the southern tundra peat accumulation was not interrupted in fens permafrost polygonal peat plateaus. This allowed us to obtain a good time resolution of the peat charcoal record for the last 3.5 thousand years. …”
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Brief communication: Monitoring snow depth using small, cheap, and easy-to-deploy snow–ground interface temperature sensors by C. L. Bachand, C. L. Bachand, C. Wang, B. Dafflon, L. N. Thomas, L. N. Thomas, I. Shirley, S. Maebius, S. Maebius, C. M. Iversen, K. E. Bennett

“…<p>Temporally continuous snow depth estimates are vital for understanding changing snow patterns and impacts on permafrost in the Arctic. We trained a random forest machine learning model to predict snow depth from variability in snow–ground interface temperature. …”
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Freezing Pressurized Water into a Standard Cylindrical Ice Sample in a Triaxial Cell by Baosheng Wang, Peixin Sun, Tingting Luo, Tao Zhang, Weihao Yang

“…The mechanical characteristics of high-pressure frozen ice are a basis for the design of deep underground frozen walls, the drilling of thick permafrost and ice sheets, and the probing of extraterrestrial ice. …”
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Dynamic soil columns simulate Arctic redox biogeochemistry and carbon release during changes in water saturation by Erin C. Berns-Herrboldt, Teri A. O’Meara, Elizabeth M. Herndon, Benjamin N. Sulman, Baohua Gu, Dawn M. Klingeman, Kenneth A. Lowe, David E. Graham

“…Abstract Thawing Arctic permafrost can induce hydrologic change and alter redox conditions, shifting the balance of soil organic matter (SOM) decomposition. …”
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Experimental study of thermal pile characteristics by V. S. Evdokimov, G. I. Chernov, A. A. Gladenko, A. A. Isaev

“…The relevance of this work is due to the widespread use of thermal piles for soil stabilization in permafrost zones in order to prevent deformation and ruptures of gas and oil pipelines. …”
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Increased vulnerability of Arctic potential ice roads under climate change by Yuanbiao Dong, Pengfeng Xiao, Xueliang Zhang, Daqing Ge, Junchuan Yu, Yangyang Chen, Qiong Wu, Yanni Ma, Rongyuan Liu, Wenbo Luan, Hao Liu, Jie Bai

“…Before the end of the 21st century, we project a further decline in the climatic suitability of potential ice roads, primarily due to increasing surface air temperatures and decreasing permafrost stability. Taking precious metal/diamond exploration as an example, we conclude that mining activities associated with ice roads will face access difficulties by 2050–2100 due to the decreased potential ice roads. …”
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Impacts of benchmarking choices on inferred model skill of the Arctic–Boreal terrestrial carbon cycle by Jeralyn Poe, Deborah Huntzinger, Nathan Collier, Christopher Schwalm, Jon Wells, Christina Schädel, William J Riley, Stephen Sitch

“…A key area often misrepresented by models is the Arctic–Boreal region, which is a potential tipping point region in Earth’s climate system due to large permafrost carbon stocks that are vulnerable to release with climate warming. …”
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