Glacier and Permafrost Hazards

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• Personal Author:
  Wolken, G. J. ; Liljedah, A. K. ; Brubaker, M. ; Coe, J. A. ; Fiske, G. ; Hvidtfeldt Christiansen, H. ; Jacquemart, M. ; Jones, B. M. ; Kääb, A. ; Løvholt, F. ; Natali, S. ; Rudy, A. C. A. ; Streletskiy, D.
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• Corporate Authors:
  United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research ; ; Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing (GOMO) Program
• NOAA Program & Office:
  OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research) ; GOMO (Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing)
• Description:
  Air temperature increases in the Arctic over the last two decades have been more than twice the global average, prompting an acceleration in glacier mass loss and permafrost degradation (IPCC 2019; Hugonnet et al. 2021; Smith et al. 2021). Beyond the global implications of these rapid changes (e.g., carbon release and sea level rise), the emergence and increase in cryosphere hazards threaten national security (e.g., military infrastructure and population displacement) and the lives of Arctic residents across local to regional scales. Here, we focus on hazards related to glaciers and permafrost and define hazard as the potential occurrence of a natural physical process that may adversely impact human or ecological systems (IPCC 2019).
• Keywords:
  • Arctic Report Card
• Series:
  NOAA Technical Report OAR ARC ; 21-13
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.25923/v40r-0956
• Document Type:
  Technical Report
• Place as Subject:
  Arctic regions
• License:
  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Rights Information:
  CC0 Public Domain
• Compliance:
  Submitted
• Download URL:
  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/34198/noaa_34198_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 735.30 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR)
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:c8cf4fd05862a8aa643386f7e520115e21c7c82c67c1a36b6154845aa7c09ccb