SCIENCE


Journal publications

Annett Bartsch, Angelika Höfler, Christine Kroisleitner, Anna Maria Trofaier: Land Cover Mapping in Northern High Latitude Permafrost Regions with Satellite Data: Achievements and Remaining Challenges. Remote Sensing 12/2016; 8(12):980., DOI:10.3390/rs8120979 

Annett Bartsch, Georg Pointner, Marina O. Leibman, Yuri A. Dvornikov, Artem V. Khomutov, Anna M. Trofaier: Circumpolar Mapping of Ground-Fast Lake Ice. Frontiers in Earth Science 02/2017; 5., DOI:10.3389/feart.2017.00012 

Barbara Widhalm, Annett Bartsch, Marina Leibman, Artem Khomutov: Active-layer thickness estimation from X-band SAR backscatter intensity. The Cryosphere 02/2017; 11(1):483-496., DOI:10.5194/tc-11-483-2017

Sina Muster, Kurt Roth, Moritz Langer, Stephan Lange, Fabio Cresto Aleina, Annett Bartsch, Anne Morgenstern, Guido Grosse, Benjamin Jones, A. Britta K. Sannel, Ylva Sjöberg, Frank Günther, Christian Andresen, Alexandra Veremeeva, Prajna R. Lindgren, Frédéric Bouchard, Mark J. Lara, Daniel Fortier, Simon Charbonneau, Tarmon A. Virtanen, Gustaf Hugelius, Juri Palmtag, Matthias B. Siewert, William J. Riley, Charles D. Koven, Julia Boike: PeRL: A Circum-Arctic Permafrost Region Pond and Lake Database. Earth System Science Data 11/2016; 56., DOI:10.5194/essd-2016-56 

Bruce C. Forbes, Timo Kumpula, Nina Meschtyb, Roza Laptander, Marc Macias-Fauria, Pentti Zetterberg, Mariana Verdonen, Anna Skarin, Kwang-Yul Kim, Linette N. Boisvert, Julienne C. Stroeve, Annett Bartsch: Sea ice, rain-on-snow and tundra reindeer nomadism in Arctic Russia. Biology letters 11/2016; 12(11):20160466., DOI:10.1098/rsbl.2016.0466 

Dvornikov, Y.; Leibman, M.; Heim, B.; Bartsch, A.; Haas, A.; Khomutov, A.; Gubarkov, A.; Mikhaylova, M.; Mullanurov, D.; Widhalm, B.; Skorospekhova, T.; Fedorova, I. (2016) Geodatabase and WebGIS project for long-term permafrost monitoring at the Vaskiny Dachi research station, Yamal, Russia. Polarforschung, 85, 2, 107-115, doi:10.2312/polfor.2016.007

Barbara Widhalm, Annett Bartsch, and Birgit Heim (2015). A novel approach for the characterization of tundra wetland regions with C-band SAR satellite data. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 36(22):5537-5556. 10.1080/01431161.2015.1101505

Special issue 'The Russian Far North - a landscape in transition'

Leibman MO, Kizyakov AI, Plekhanov AV, Streletskaya ID 2014. New permafrost feature – Deep crater in central Yamal, West Siberia, Russia, as a response to local climate fluctuations. Geography, Environment, Sustainability 7: 4, 68–80.

Trofaier A. M., Bartsch, A., Rees, G. & M. Leibman (2013): Assessment of spring floods and surface water extent over the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District. Environ. Res. Lett. 8 045026 doi:10.1088/1748-9326/8/4/045026

Kumpula, T., Forbes, B.C., F. Stammler and N. Meschtyb (2012) Dynamics of a coupled system: multi-resolution remote sensing in assessing social-ecological responses during 25 years of gas field development in Arctic Russia. Remote Sensing 4: 1046-1068. http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/4/4/1046

Leibman M.O., Perednya D.D., Kizyakov A.I., Lein A.Y., Savvichev A.S., Vanshtein B.G.  Sulfur and carbon isotopes within atmospheric, surface and ground water, snow and ice as indicators of the origin of tabular ground ice in the Russian Arctic. Permafrost and Periglacial processes, 22 (1), 2011: 39-48. http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/7/1/015504

Bartsch, A., Kumpula, T., Forbes, B., Stammler, F. (2010): Detection of snow surface thawing and refreezing in the Eurasian Arctic using QuikSCAT: implications for reindeer herding. Ecological Applications 20(8): 2346-2358. doi: 10.1890/09-1927

Walker D.A., Leibman M.O., Epstein H.E., Forbes B.C., Bhatt U.S., Raynolds M.K., Comiso J.C., Gubarkov A.A., Khomutov A.V., Jia G.J., Kaarlejärvi E., Kaplan J.O., Kumpula T., Kuss P., Matyshak G., Moskalenko N.G., Orekhov P., Romanovsky V.E., Ukraientseva N.G., Yu Q. 2009. Spatial and temporal patterns of greenness on the Yamal Peninsula, Russia: interactions of ecological and social factors affecting Arctic NDVI. Environ. Res. Lett. 4 (2009) doi:10.1088/1748-9326/4/4/045004.

Gubarkov, A.A. & M.O. Leibman (2008): Interrelation of cryogenic and hydrologic processes and small streams and catchments of central Yamal. Proceedings of the Ninth International conference on permafrost, 29.6.-3.4.2008 Fairbanks, Alaska, 563-569.

Leibman M.O., Kizyakov A.I., Sulerzhitsky L.D., Zaretskaya N.E. Dynamics of the landslide slopes and mechanism of their development on Yamal peninsula, Russia//Permafrost (M.Phillips, S.M.Springman, L.U.Arenson, eds.), Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Permafrost, Zurich 21-25 July 2003. A.A.Balkema Publishers, Lisse, Netherlands, 2003, I: 651-656.

Leibman M.O. (1996): Results of chemical testing for various types of water and ice, Yamal Peninsula, Russia. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, 7(4): 287-296.

Data publications

Bartsch, Annett; Pointner, Georg; Leibman, Marina O; Dvornikov, Yury; Khomutov, Artem V; Trofaier, Anna Maria (2017): Circumpolar ground-fast lake ice fraction by lake from ENVISAT ASAR late winter 2008, links to Shapfiles. doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.873674, Supplement to: Bartsch, A et al. (2017): Circumpolar Mapping of Ground-Fast Lake Ice. Frontiers in Earth Science, 5(12), 16 pp, doi:10.3389/feart.2017.00012 

Widhalm, Barbara; Bartsch, Annett; Leibman, Marina O; Khomutov, Artem V (2017): Mean TerraSAR-X backscatter and in-situ measurements of near surface soil moisture and temperature including vegetation survey in August 2015 on central Yamal (Vaskiny Dachi CALM site). Dataset #874619 (DOI registration in progress), Supplement to: Widhalm, B et al. (2017): Active-layer thickness estimation from X-band SAR backscatter intensity. The Cryosphere, 11(1), 483-496, doi:10.5194/tc-11-483-2017

Widhalm, Barbara; Bartsch, Annett; Heim, Birgit (2015): Circumarctic   wetland dataset based on ENVISAT ASAR Global Monitoring Mode with links to geotiff image and NetCDF files (2005-01 to 2011-12). doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.840548, Supplement to: Widhalm, B et al. (2015): A novel approach for the characterization of tundra wetland regions with C-band SAR satellite data. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 36(22), 5537-5556, doi:10.1080/01431161.2015.1101505

Muster, Sina; Roth, Kurt; Langer, Moritz; Lange, Stephan; Cresto-Aleina, Fabio; Bartsch, Annett; Morgenstern, Anne; Grosse, Guido; Jones, Benjamin; Sannel, A Britta K; Sjöberg, Ylva; Günther, Frank; Andresen, Christian; Veremeeva, Alexandra; Lindgren, Prajna R; Bouchard, Frédéric; Lara, Mark J; Fortier, Daniel; Charbonneau, Simon; Virtanen, Tarmo A; Hugelius, Gustaf; Palmtag, Juri; Siewert, Matthias Benjamin; Riley, William J; Koven, Charles D; Boike, Julia (2017): PeRL: Permafrost Region Pond and Lake Database, links to ArcGIS shapefiles. doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.868349, Supplement to: Muster, S et al. (2016): PeRL: A Circum-Arctic Permafrost Region Pond and Lake Database. Earth System Science Data Discussions, 46 pp, doi:10.5194/essd-2016-56

Dvornikov, Yury; Heim, Birgit; Roessler, Sebastian; Leibman, Marina O; Khomutov, Artem V; Bartsch, Annett (2016): Colored dissolved organic matter (cDOM) absorption measurements in the Vaskiny Dachi region, Central Yamal, Russia. Institute of the Earth Cryosphere of the Siberian Branch of the RAS, Tyumen, doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.860049