Increasing river sediment concentration and flux across the pan-Arctic

2026/04/13 by Shang Tian, Dongfeng Li, Ting Zhang +13 · 1 voice
Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics #Climate change and permafrost #Geology and Paleoclimatology Research

paper · doi:10.1038/s41561-026-01960-z

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Citations

• From local explanations to global understanding with explainable AI for trees
• Carbon release through abrupt permafrost thaw
• Application of newly developed ensemble machine learning models for daily suspended sediment load prediction and related uncertainty analysis
• The Arctic has warmed nearly four times faster than the globe since 1979
• Changes in global fluvial sediment concentrations and fluxes between 1985 and 2020
• Community estimate of global glacier mass changes from 2000 to 2023

Discussions

• Out in @natgeosci.nature.com we show the total sediment flux from land to the ocean across the pan-Arctic has risen by 15% since 1980, due to greater discharge, permafrost disturbances and fires. The [bsky, 2 points, 1 comments]