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Accelerated thermokarst formation in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

Thermokarst is a land surface lowered and disrupted by melting ground ice. Thermokarst is a major driver of landscape change in the Arctic, but has been considered to be a minor process in Antarctica. Here, we use ground-based and airborne LiDAR coupled with timelapse imaging and meteorological data...

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Autores principales: Levy, Joseph S., Fountain, Andrew G., Dickson, James L., Head, James W., Okal, Marianne, Marchant, David R., Watters, Jaclyn
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3721085/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23881292
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep02269