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Various climatic parameters (average annual, winter, and summer air temperature, winter and summer total precipitation) and their temporal variability are analyzed to explain the activation of cryogenic processes in Central Yamal. The effect of fluctuations of these parameters on the thaw depth and ground temperature is analyzed. The regression analysis is carried out to reconstruct ground temperature during earlier periods of time in the years preceding the activation of thermal denudation and the formation of gas emission craters.
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Russian Text © E.A. Babkina, M.O. Leibman, Yu.A. Dvornikov, N.Yu. Fakashchuk, R.R. Khairullin, A.V. Khomutov, 2019, published in Meteorologiya i Gidrologiya, 2019, No. 4, pp. 99–109.
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Babkina, E.A., Leibman, M.O., Dvornikov, Y.A. et al. Activation of Cryogenic Processes in Central Yamal as a Result of Regional and Local Change in Climate and Thermal State of Permafrost. Russ. Meteorol. Hydrol. 44, 283–290 (2019). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1068373919040083
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