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ERL特刊精选|Permafrost Vulnerability to Climate Change

17 Dec 2025 gabriels

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Jing Tao，美国劳伦斯伯克利国家实验室
Anna Liljedahl，美国伍德威尔气候研究中心
Christopher Burn，加拿大卡尔顿大学
Guido Grosse, 德国阿尔弗雷德·韦格纳研究所亥姆霍兹极地和海洋研究中心
Jeannette Noetzli, 瑞士WSL雪崩研究所
Scott Goetz，美国北亚利桑那大学
Thomas Douglas, 美国陆军寒冷地区研究和工程实验室
杨元合，中国科学院植物研究所

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Due to recent climate warming, permafrost regions at high latitude and high altitude have experienced dramatic changes. It is urgent to integrate efforts among interdisciplinary research communities in field science, remote sensing, and earth system modeling together to understand permafrost vulnerability under the current climate and to enhance the predictability of permafrost dynamics under future climate.

This focus collection aims to document and synthesize frontier research on permafrost vulnerability and hydro-biogeochemistry and ecosystem response to climate change over permafrost regions today and in the future. Potential contributions include (but are not limited to) monitoring and modelling permafrost warming and associated geomorphology, hydrology, biogeochemistry, environmental and ecosystem changes at a variety of scales, bridging gaps from the landscape to global scales, improving model predictability of permafrost thaw and carbon cycle response to future climate, and any other contributions related to permafrost vulnerability.

Suggested, but not exhaustive, topics of interest for this collection include:

Observation synthesis from long-term permafrost monitoring networks.
Geophysical and remote sensing investigations of changing permafrost landscapes.
Response of permafrost rivers, deltas, and coastlines to climate warming.
The role of ground ice and water in permafrost carbon dynamics.
Snow, vegetation, and permafrost interactions.
Microorganisms and their processes in permafrost.
Changing biogeochemistry of permafrost regions.
Permafrost environmental contamination under climate warming.
Mountain permafrost in a warming world.
Data-model fusion advancements in monitoring and predicting permafrost vulnerability.
Infrastructure and transportation engineering on permafrost.

This focus collection has been organised in partnership with the 2021 Regional Conference on Permafrost (RCOP) and 19th International Conference on Cold Regions Engineering (ICCRE).

特刊文章

Editorial

Permafrost vulnerability to climate change: understanding thaw dynamics and climate feedback of permafrost degradation

Jing Tao et al 2025 Environ. Res. Lett. 20 100201

Letters

Multi-decadal degradation and fragmentation of palsas and peat plateaus in coastal Labrador, northeastern Canada

Yifeng Wang et al 2024 Environ. Res. Lett. 19 014009

Permafrost degradation and soil erosion as drivers of greenhouse gas emissions from tundra ponds

Vilmantas Prėskienis et al 2024 Environ. Res. Lett. 19 014072

Linking repeat lidar with Landsat products for large scale quantification of fire-induced permafrost thaw settlement in interior Alaska

Caiyun Zhang et al 2023 Environ. Res. Lett. 18 015003

Quantification of active layer depth at multiple scales in Interior Alaska permafrost

David Brodylo et al 2024 Environ. Res. Lett. 19 034013

Acceleration and interannual variability of creep rates in mountain permafrost landforms (rock glacier velocities) in the European Alps in 1995–2022

Andreas Kellerer-Pirklbauer et al 2024 Environ. Res. Lett. 19 034022

Local-scale heterogeneity of soil thermal dynamics and controlling factors in a discontinuous permafrost region

Chen Wang et al 2024 Environ. Res. Lett. 19 034030

18-years of high-Alpine rock wall monitoring using terrestrial laser scanning at the Tour Ronde east face, Mont-Blanc massif

Léa Courtial-Manent et al 2024 Environ. Res. Lett. 19 034037

The thermal response of permafrost to coastal floodplain flooding

Yu Zhang et al 2023 Environ. Res. Lett. 18 035004

Potential nitrogen mobilisation from the Yedoma permafrost domain

Jens Strauss et al 2024 Environ. Res. Lett. 19 043002

The thermal effect of snow cover on ground surface temperature in the Northern Hemisphere

Xiaoqing Peng et al 2024 Environ. Res. Lett. 19 044015

Insights on seasonal solifluction processes in warm permafrost Arctic landscape using a dense monitoring approach across adjacent hillslopes

Sylvain Fiolleau et al 2024 Environ. Res. Lett. 19 044021

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) detects large gas seeps in Alaska lakes

Melanie Engram and Katey Walter Anthony 2024 Environ. Res. Lett. 19 044034

Canopy cover and microtopography control precipitation-enhanced thaw of ecosystem-protected permafrost

Joel F Eklof et al 2024 Environ. Res. Lett. 19 044055

Soil incubation methods lead to large differences in inferred methane production temperature sensitivity

Zhen Li et al 2024 Environ. Res. Lett. 19 044069

Post-drainage vegetation, microtopography and organic matter in Arctic drained lake basins

Juliane Wolter et al 2024 Environ. Res. Lett. 19 045001

Winter soil temperature varies with canopy cover in Siberian larch forests

Michael M Loranty et al 2024 Environ. Res. Lett. 19 054013

Evaluating the impact of peat soils and snow schemes on simulated active layer thickness at pan-Arctic permafrost sites

Jing Tao et al 2024 Environ. Res. Lett. 19 054027

Seasonal variation in near-surface seasonally thawed active layer and permafrost soil microbial communities

Christopher C M Baker et al 2023 Environ. Res. Lett. 18 055001

Preconditioning of mountain permafrost towards degradation detected by electrical resistivity

Christian Hauck and Christin Hilbich 2024 Environ. Res. Lett. 19 064010

Missing nitrogen source during ecosystem succession within retrogressive thaw slumps in Alaska

Kate M Buckeridge et al 2023 Environ. Res. Lett. 18 0

Valeria Briones et al 2024 Environ. Res. Lett. 19 074003

20-year permafrost evolution documented through petrophysical joint inversion, thermal and soil moisture data

S Morard et al 2024 Environ. Res. Lett. 19 074074

Elevation dependency of future degradation of permafrost over the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

Guofei Zhang et al 2023 Environ. Res. Lett. 18 075005

Mercury stocks in discontinuous permafrost and their mobilization by river migration in the Yukon River Basin

M Isabel Smith et al 2024 Environ. Res. Lett. 19 084041

Climate change impacts and adaptation to permafrost change in High Mountain Asia: a comprehensive review

Prashant Baral et al 2023 Environ. Res. Lett. 18 093005

Divergent responses of permafrost degradation to precipitation increases at different seasons on the eastern Qinghai–Tibet Plateau based on modeling approach

Jingjing Yang et al 2023 Environ. Res. Lett. 18 094038

Advances in operational permafrost monitoring on Svalbard and in Norway

Ketil Isaksen et al 2022 Environ. Res. Lett. 17 095012

Attributing observed permafrost warming in the northern hemisphere to anthropogenic climate change

Lukas Gudmundsson et al 2022 Environ. Res. Lett. 17 095014

Arctic coastal hazard assessment considering permafrost thaw subsidence, coastal erosion, and flooding

Ziyi Wang et al 2023 Environ. Res. Lett. 18 104003

Effect of permafrost degradation on grassland net primary productivity in Qinghai–Tibet Plateau

Jianan Hu et al 2024 Environ. Res. Lett. 19 104051

Carbon dioxide release from retrogressive thaw slumps in Siberia

C Beer et al 2023 Environ. Res. Lett. 18 104053

Primarily investigation with multiple methods on permafrost state around a rapid change lake in the interior of the Tibet Plateau

Zekun Ding et al 2023 Environ. Res. Lett. 18 114010

Variability in terrestrial characteristics and erosion rates on the Alaskan Beaufort Sea coast

Anastasia Piliouras et al 2023 Environ. Res. Lett. 18 114050

Evidence for unexpected net permafrost aggradation driven by local hydrology and climatic triggers

Anastasia E Sniderhan et al 2023 Environ. Res. Lett. 18 115001

Investigating permafrost carbon dynamics in Alaska with artificial intelligence

B A Gay et al 2023 Environ. Res. Lett. 18 125001

期刊介绍

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