Recent circum-Arctic ice-wedge degradation and its hydrological impacts

Anna K Liljedahl1, Julia Boike2, Ronald P Daanen3, Aleksandr N Fedorov4, Gerald V Frost Jr5, Guido Grosse6, Larry D Hinzman7, Yoshihiro Iijima8, Janet C Jorgenson9, Nadya Matveyeva10, Marius Necsoiu11, Martha K Raynolds12, Vladimir E Romanovsky13, Jörg Schulla14, Ken D Tape7, Donald A Walker12, Cathy Jean Wilson15, Hironori Yabuki16 and Donatella Zona17, (1)Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmouth, United States, (2)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany, (3)DGGS, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (4)Melnikov Permafrost Institute SB RAS, Yakutsk, Russia, (5)Alaska Biological Research, Inc., Fairbanks, AK, United States, (6)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research, Permafrost Research Section, Potsdam, Germany, (7)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (8)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan, (9)Organization Not Listed, Alaska Ecoscience, Washington, DC, United States, (10)Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia, (11)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (12)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Arctic Biology, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (13)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (14)Self Employed, Zurich, Switzerland, (15)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (16)Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama-city, Japan, (17)San Diego State University, Department of Biology, San Diego, United States