Thermal regime variability of islands in the Lena River near Yakutsk, eastern Siberia

François Costard, Emmanuèle Gautier, Pavel Konstantinov, Frederic Bouchard, Antoine Séjourné, Laure Dupeyrat and Alexander Fedorov

Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, 2022, vol. 33, issue 1, 18-31

Abstract: Recent evidence has shown that Arctic regions have warmed about twice as much as elsewhere on the planet over the last few decades, and that high‐latitude permafrost–periglacial processes and hydrological systems are notably responsive to rising temperatures. The aim of this paper is to report on the thermal regime of islands located along the Lena River floodplain, upstream of the city of Yakutsk (eastern Siberia). Four islands were monitored using waterproof dataloggers and continuous monitoring of frozen soil in contact with ice breakup of the Lena River. For each of these islands, we measured: (a) ground surface temperature, air and frozen soil temperatures at different depths; and (b) submersion duration during the flood. Our results show that within a zone of thick and continuous permafrost, the Lena floodplain is notably heterogeneous, with a combination of permanently and seasonally frozen islands. The ice breakups seem to have a negligible impact on the ground thermal regime. Our study confirms that relatively young (

Date: 2022
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