Warming and Thawing Permafrost in Alaska

Vladimir E Romanovsky1, Dmitry Nicolsky2, Alexander L Kholodov2, Louise Melanie Farquharson3, Sergey S Marchenko4, Thomas Colby Wright2 and William Cable5, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, United States, (3)Geophysical Institute Permafrost Laboratory, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Fairbanks, United States, (4)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (5)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany