Аннотация:The warming at high latitudes that remains in recent years has a direct impact on Arctic and Subarctic landscapes. Possible changes in these landscapes with climate warming are closely related with regulatory mechanisms for the underlying surface temperature. The features of the formation of radiation andevapotranspirational mechanisms of surface temperature regulation in the tundra (from Arctic to southern)and the forest-tundra landscapes of Novaya Zemlya and Western Siberia are studied in this paper. TheMODIS data of surface spectral characteristics are used: albedo (Al) and surface temperature (Ts) for July2000–2019. The radiation mechanism of surface temperature regulation is shown to dominate in glacial andpolar desert landscapes of the Arctic and Subarctic with the prevalence of stony and rubble types of surfaceswith lichens. At the same time, in the mountainous and Arctic tundra of Novaya Zemlya, the radiative mechanism of surface temperature regulation is practically independent of weather anomalies and currently weaklydepends on the surface air temperature trend. In the continental tundra and forest tundra, the evapotranspirational type of surface temperature regulation begins to predominate. This is facilitated by an increase inaverage monthly air temperatures up to 15–16°C, which favorably affects the diversity of vegetation. In the subzone of the southern tundra and forest tundra, the relation between albedo and surface temperature depends onthe height of the terrain, the exposure of slopes, and (especially) on extreme temperature anomalies. In lowlands(hydromorphic complexes), in cold years, against the background of waterlogging, the radiative type of surfacetemperature regulation prevails, while in warm years, a decrease in humidity leads to the maximal developmentof vegetation, and the communication mechanism can turn into an evapotranspirational one. At higher elevations, the reverse process, which is also associated with changes in moisture conditions, is observed. In the foresttundra, upon an increase in air temperature and an increase in the height of the vegetation cover, the evapotranspiration mechanism of the relation between the Al–Ts spectral parameters weakens. Thus, in the southern tundra and forest tundra, the existence of two stable positions of equilibrium between the spectral properties of thesurface depending on the illumination and temperature anomalies is possible.