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Verification of the Relationship between the Isotopic Composition of Ice Wedges and Cold-season Temperature over the Recent 80 Years in the Northern Permafrost Zone of Russia

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The correlation between the isotopic composition of ice wedges and temperature of the cold period over the past 80 years in the north of the permafrost zone of Russia is verified using modern climate data. The meteorological observations from 1930 to 2017 and the values of δ18О in ice wedges for each region of the permafrost zone are analyzed to identify the most obvious and stable dependence of the isotopic composition and winter temperature. This will allow creating more detailed quantitative paleoreconstructions of climate change within the modern permafrost zone of Siberia.

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The authors thank A.A. Krylov for assistance in the preparation of data.

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The research was supported by the Russian Science Foundation (grant 19-17-00126).

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Russian Text ©The Author(s), 2020, published in Meteorologiya i Gidrologiya, 2020, No. 11, pp. 84-91.

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Vasil’chuk, Y.K., Surkova, G.V. Verification of the Relationship between the Isotopic Composition of Ice Wedges and Cold-season Temperature over the Recent 80 Years in the Northern Permafrost Zone of Russia. Russ. Meteorol. Hydrol. 45, 791–796 (2020). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1068373920110060

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