Ice wedge degradation: Why Arctic lowlands are becoming wetter and drier

Anna K Liljedahl, Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmouth, United States, Julia Boike, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany, Ronald P Daanen, DGGS, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Aleksandr N Fedorov, Melnikov Permafrost Institute SB RAS, Yakutsk, Russia, Gerald V Frost Jr, University of Virginia Main Campus, Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, United States, Guido Grosse, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Potsdam, Permafrost Research Section, Potsdam, Germany, Larry D Hinzman, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Yoshihiro Iijima, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka-city, Japan, Janet C Jorgenson, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Nadya Matveyeva, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia, Marius Necsoiu, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, Martha K Raynolds, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Arctic Biology, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Vladimir E Romanovsky, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Jörg Schulla, Self Employed, Zurich, Switzerland, Ken D Tape, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Donald A Walker, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska Geobotany Center, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Cathy Jean Wilson, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Hironori Yabuki, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama-city, Japan