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High-resolution InSAR regional soil water storage mapping above permafrost
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
Jingyi Chen
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
Center of Space Research, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
M. Bayani Cardenas
Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
George W. Kling
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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Short summary
As the soil thaws in summer, the land subsides, owing to the greater volume of ice than of water. This deformation helps monitor water storage because the subsidence magnitude is proportional to water volume. In this study, the interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) technique was used to map subsidence around Toolik Lake, Arctic Alaska. Both InSAR and field observations suggest that soil water storage ranges from 0 to 75 cm, with small errors, and that the spatial distribution of soil water correlates strongly with topography and vegetation.
As the soil thaws in summer, the land subsides, owing to the greater volume of ice than of...
