Review of "Consequences of permafrost degradation for Arctic infrastructure – bridging the model gap between regional and engineering scales" [post]

Anonymous
2020 unpublished
I enjoyed reading this paper, in which the authors propose the use of process-based tiling models (PTMs) to study the decade-scale impact of infrastructure placement on permafrost stability. Through a case study at the Dalton Highway in northern Alaska, the authors demonstrate the feasibility of PTMs for bridging the spatial gap between computationally expensive, short timescale geotechnical models (GTMs) and coarseresolution land surface models (LSMs). The authors apply process-based tiles
more » ... in Cryogrid-3, an approach which has been used previously to model permafrost dynamics in other environments where lateral fluxes of water and energy are important. C1 TCD Interactive comment Printer-friendly version Discussion paper
doi:10.5194/tc-2020-192-rc1 fatcat:5tzswaux6nabzm5netozqnkomi