Arctic polygonal tundra (IMAGE)

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Arctic polygonal tundra

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ORNL scientists created a high-performance simulation of the Arctic tundra that found the process of soil subsidence due to permafrost thaw would be self-limited in the decades ahead.

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David Graham, ORNL/U.S. Dept. of Energy

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